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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2829455, member: 75937&quot;]Cleopatra Thea, not to be confused with the consort of Caesar and Mark Antony, was one of antiquity&#039;s most remarkable women. She was successively wife of three Seleucid kings and mother of two, the first of whom she murdered, the second of whom is seen here associated with her in rule.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more about her, see <a href="http://www.livius.org/articles/person/cleopatra-thea/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/articles/person/cleopatra-thea/" rel="nofollow">this</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_Thea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_Thea" rel="nofollow">this</a>, and <a href="http://www.seleucid-genealogy.com/Antiochus_VIII.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.seleucid-genealogy.com/Antiochus_VIII.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Seleucids or anything you might feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]666588[/ATTACH]</p><p>Cleopatra Thea, Queen of Syria, with son Antiochus VIII</p><p>Seleucid AR tetradrachm, 15.85 gm, 27 mm</p><p>Antioch mint, 125-121 BC</p><p>Obv: Jugate busts, r.</p><p>Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, Zeus Nikephoros seated l., holding lotus-tipped scepter; IE outer left, A under throne</p><p>Refs: SNG Spaer 2437; c.f. Sear 7135</p><p>Notes: Ex-Henry Clay Lindgren. An obverse die match to an example sold in Baldwin&#039;s, Dmitry Markov and M&amp;M Numismatics New York Sale IX, January 13, 2005.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was featured in an article in the April, 2004 issue of <i>The Celator </i>(p. 60), previewing the auction from which I purchased it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]666595[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]666591[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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