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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 24815600, member: 85693&quot;]Gotta love those Seleucid elephants.&nbsp; I have some countermarked elephants, as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cm-seleucid-ant-iii-horse-head-jan-2020-0-jpg.1062514/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Seleucid</b> <b>Kingdom</b> <b>Æ 24</b></p><p><b>Antiochos III the Great</b></p><p><b>Military mint in Ekbatana</b></p><p><b>c. 210 B.C. / countermarked <b>in Coele-Syria c. 202-198 B.C.</b></b></p><p>Antiochos III as Apollo right / [ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ], elephant &amp; mahout right, [tripod &amp; monogram?]. SC 1272</p><p><b>Countermark:</b> Horse head.</p><p>(14.06 grams / 24 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here another one with a smaller horse head and an anchor:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cm-seleucid-ant-iii-horse-head-anchor-ap-2019-0-jpg.1062512/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Seleucid</b> <b>Kingdom</b> <b>Æ 21</b></p><p><b>Antiochos III the Great <b>Military mint in Ekbatana <b>c. 210 B.C. / countermarked <b>in Coele-Syria c. 202-198 B.C.</b></b></b></b></p><p>Antiochos III as Apollo right / ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, elephant &amp; mahout right.</p><p><b>CM:</b> Anchor &amp; Horse’s Head</p><p>SC 1084e; ESM 656; Spaer</p><p>819-821</p><p>(8.01 grams / 21 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the two of them together - note the size/weight difference:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cm-seleucid-ant-iii-horse-head-anchor-2-types-2020-0-jpg.1062513/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For both of these I am attaching this note:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The...bronzes were apparently countermarked first with a horse head, and later with an anchor...The Seleucid army needed to impose the use of this fiduciary</p><p>coinage on the population of Ptolemaic Coele Syria during the Fifth Syrian War in order to ensure provisions for its troops.&quot;</p><p>SC I, Appendix 2, (p. 66)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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