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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 3199482, member: 87080&quot;]Very nice coin [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] the counterstamps make for a very pleasing look.&nbsp; I have one small AE of Antiochos III that I have posted before.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]827687[/ATTACH] </p><p>The anchor was a personal symbol of the dynastic founder Seleukos I.&nbsp; He claimed to be the son of Apollo and that the god had given a golden ring with an engraved anchor on it to his mother.&nbsp; As a sign of his divine origin he claimed to have an anchor birth mark.&nbsp; The anchor appears on many Seleucid coins. Here is a tet of Seleukos I Nikator with an anchor as a control mark.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]827690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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