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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8195669, member: 110350&quot;]Syria, Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypon) Tetradrachm, 109-96 BCE Antioch Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Antiochos VIII right / Rev. Zeus Nikephoros seated left on high-backed throne, holding Nike on outstretched right hand and scepter in left; to outer left, E/P monogram above A [Antioch]; ΔI monogram below throne; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ; all within laurel wreath. <i>Seleucid Coins</i> [SC] Pt. 2, 2309; <i>Seleucid Coins Online</i> [same] (see <a href="http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309);" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309);" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309);</a> Seaby 7145 (ill.) [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins &amp; their Values, Vol. II: Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Hoover, Oliver, <i>Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, </i>Volume 9 (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [Newell, E.T., <i>The Seleucid Mint of Antioch</i> (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [Spaer, A.&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; A. Houghton, <i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins</i> (London, 1998)]; BMC 4 Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [<i>erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI</i>] [Gardner, P., <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria </i>(London, 1878)].&nbsp; 27 mm., 16.2 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435515[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, changing the subject: A personification of a river other than Nilus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435519[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And other than a personification of the Orontes:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435520[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>They would be too easy! So a different one. Here&#039;s my example of one other such riverine personification, depicted on Trajan&#039;s Danube denarius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435516[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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