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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24814820, member: 128351&quot;]Seleucid bronze coins are underrated collectibles. In the 3rd and 2nd c. BC the Seleucid kings minted not only silver tetradrachms - which are much sought after coins and relatively expensive - but also a great quantity of middle and small bronze coins. Not only the kings, many Syrian and Phoenician cities had bought their liberty from the Seleucid Kingdom and minted their own civic coinage. These bronze coins are sometimes all that is left of these cities in the Hellenistic period : modern visitors can see only medieval, Byzantine, sometimes Roman remains, but nothing Hellenistic... </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are usually very affordable, even in good condition. This one is just average, it has no big value and I like it for this... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1588351[/ATTACH] Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Laodice IV (175-172 BC), denomination C, AE 16 mm, 2.99 g, Antioch mint</p><p>Obv.: veiled, diademed bust of Laodice IV right</p><p>Rev.: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXΟΥ, elephant head left, to r. tripod, exergue Δ</p><p>Seleucid Coins (part 2) 1407. Very similar to ANS 1944.100.75250</p><p>... but I couldn&#039;t find any other one with the Δ mark... </p><p><br /></p><p>Laodice IV was a Seleucid princess, daughter of Antiochus III the Great. She married successively her three brothers. First she married the crown prince Antiochus, and had a daughter. Second, she married her other brother Seleucus IV and had 3 children. When he died she married her younger brother Antiochus IV who had been an hostage in Rome, but came back to reign in Antioch. She had 2 children with him. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to write something about the Seleucid elephant force. War elephants became a real craze in the 3rd and early 2nd c. BC. Alexander&#039;s army had discovered war elephants in India, and later all Greco-Macedonian armies wanted to have some. The founder of the Seleucid Kingdom, Seleucus I Nicator, made a deal with the Indian emperor Sandrakottos (Chandragupta Maurya) who sent him 500 war elephants. They were raised in a large ranch at Apamea, in central Syria. All other powers in the Mediterranean wanted their own elephants too, the Ptolemies of Egypt who organized elephant hunts in today&#039;s Eritrea and Somalia, Pyrrhus king of Epirus, Carthage... But the Romans never fell for this fashion. Eventually the Romans defeated everybody without a single elephant, and the fashion was forgotten...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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