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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 5226235, member: 82322"]Here is a coin of Antiochus formerly in the collection of Arthur Houghton.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216625[/ATTACH] </p><p>Reverse: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY QEOY EPIFANOYS; Aegis bearing the head of Medusa.</p><p>Arthur Houghton, <i>Coins of the Seleucid Empire</i> (1983), #103 (this coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>Edward T. Newell dates the reverse type to 167-165/4 BC, suggesting they coins were struck as keepsakes for visitors to games and festivals held then at Antioch. Arthur Houghton and Catherine Lorber call the bronze “… an exceptional issue, produced in conjunction with the special issue of fractional silver denominations…”.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 2nd century AD Pausanias wrote “Antiochus [IV?] ... gave as offerings the golden aegis with the Gorgon on it above the theater at Athens.” The aegis on this coin may represent the one Pausanias saw in Athens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 5226235, member: 82322"]Here is a coin of Antiochus formerly in the collection of Arthur Houghton. [ATTACH=full]1216625[/ATTACH] Reverse: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY QEOY EPIFANOYS; Aegis bearing the head of Medusa. Arthur Houghton, [I]Coins of the Seleucid Empire[/I] (1983), #103 (this coin) Edward T. Newell dates the reverse type to 167-165/4 BC, suggesting they coins were struck as keepsakes for visitors to games and festivals held then at Antioch. Arthur Houghton and Catherine Lorber call the bronze “… an exceptional issue, produced in conjunction with the special issue of fractional silver denominations…”. In the 2nd century AD Pausanias wrote “Antiochus [IV?] ... gave as offerings the golden aegis with the Gorgon on it above the theater at Athens.” The aegis on this coin may represent the one Pausanias saw in Athens.[/QUOTE]
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