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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2552246, member: 82322&quot;][ATTACH=full]548525[/ATTACH] </p><p>I don&#039;t think I can improve on the description written by Oliver Hoover:</p><p><br /></p><p>Diademed and radiate head of Antiochus IV r. Border of dots./Zeus&#039; Aegis</p><p>bearing the head of Medusa. BASILEWS ANTIOXOY QEOY EPIFANOYS. CSE 103 (THIS COIN). ex Arthur Houghton collection. This is an extremely rare coin of</p><p>Antiochus IV, the infamous Seleucid king who tried to repress the Maccabees</p><p>in the Hannukah story. Antiochus was especially devoted to the cult of Zeus</p><p>and attempted to convert the Jewish temple into a temple of Zeus. The Aegis</p><p>(Zeus&#039; special shield) on the reverse probably depicts an immense gold</p><p>aegis that the king gave to the people of Athens. It was erected on the</p><p>Acropolis, but a great wind storm later knocked it down. The image of the</p><p>so-called &quot;beautiful Medusa&quot; found on Seleucid coins is the distant</p><p>ancestor of the Medusa head that has become the corporate emblem of the</p><p>Versacci fashion empire. This is an ex Houghton coll. piece and the plate</p><p>coin for Coins of the Seleucid Empire, no. 103.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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