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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3199058, member: 75525&quot;][ATTACH=full]827471[/ATTACH] </p><p>I picked up an interesting piece that is a bit outside of my collecting area this week. I do not have the coin yet, so I am posting the seller&#039;s pics. This snack is not as nice as the one [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER]&nbsp; posted this week, but it has two neat counterstamps. One is an upward pointed anchor. I think most of the anchors from this part of the world pointed their anchors this way on coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>SYRIA - Seleucid Kingdom - ANTIOCHUS III THE GREAT; 223-187 BC, Æ 21; Uncertain Syrian Mint</p><p>OBVERSE - Laureate head of Antiochus with the features of Apollo facing right, no legend. Truth be told, there is not much of a face on this coin.</p><p>REVERSE - Elephant with a mahout going right, on the left other coins have a tripod (or anchor), but a countermark covers this feature. A Ma·hout is a person in South and Southeast Asia who works with, rides, and tends an elephant. BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU, from King Antiochus. Two countermarks are visible on the reverse: an anchor, left, and a horse&#039;s head between the legs of the elephant. A few similar coins have anchor and horse head countermarks. An anchor is often used on Seleucid coins.</p><p>Metal : bronze</p><p>Diameter : 21,5 mm</p><p>Orientation dies : 12 h.</p><p>Weight : 9,22 g.</p><p>Rarity : R2</p><p><br /></p><p>COMENTS ON THE CONDITION:&nbsp; (In French from the seller) Exemplaire sur un flan épais. Joli revers. Le droit est plus marqué par les traces de circulation. Patine vert foncé… In English – well worn coin on a thick flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>·&nbsp; Wear – Obv. AG / Rev. VG; the reverse shows most features and much of the lettering; the obverse is more worn by circulation. Both sides have scratches.</p><p>·&nbsp; Strike – probably a good strike, but hard to tell due to wear. High relief on reverse means that elephant and rider are still visible; casting sprews still on coin.</p><p>·&nbsp; Centering – good</p><p>·&nbsp; Dark green patina.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antiochus III, second son of Seleucus II, succeeded his brother Seleucus III in 223 BC He had first put down the revolt of Molon, satrap of Media, who had revolted and was eliminated in 220 BC Having made the mistake of entrusting the military command of Asia Minor Achaeus his uncle, the latter revolted and Antiochus overcame the revolt after the taking of Sardis in 214 BC, beheaded The usurper, he then restored the Seleucid power in Parthia and Bactria. After the defeat of Philip V and having received Cynoscephalae Hannibal exile, he became an implacable enemy of the Romans. After a first series of victories, he was finally defeated at Thermopylae and Magnesia in 189 BC He had to sign the Peace of Apamea in the following year, devoting the Roman hegemony and the end of the Seleucid domination Asia Minor, leaving Pergamon arbiter of the situation. He was assassinated in 187 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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