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<p>[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 24815681, member: 75496"]Nice article, [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER], about Seleucid coins, Laodice IV, and elephant forces! My coin that is similar to your example is below. This one was minted in the port city of Ptolemais and has a prow on the reverse beside the elephant.</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1588427[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Seleucid Kingdom. Antiochos IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC). </font></p><p><font size="3">Serrate AE (15 mm. 3.22 g, 1h). </font></p><p><font size="3">Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck 175 to circa 173/2 BC.</font></p><p><font size="3">Diademed, veiled and draped bust of Laodice IV right; monogram behind. / BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] ANTIOXOY, head of elephant left with monogram above trunk; below right, prow left.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 24815681, member: 75496"]Nice article, [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER], about Seleucid coins, Laodice IV, and elephant forces! My coin that is similar to your example is below. This one was minted in the port city of Ptolemais and has a prow on the reverse beside the elephant. [ATTACH=full]1588427[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Seleucid Kingdom. Antiochos IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC). Serrate AE (15 mm. 3.22 g, 1h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck 175 to circa 173/2 BC. Diademed, veiled and draped bust of Laodice IV right; monogram behind. / BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] ANTIOXOY, head of elephant left with monogram above trunk; below right, prow left.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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