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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2303081, member: 42773"]5. Number five is not a rare type, but it is quite scarce in higher grades. It seems the Seleucids got as much mileage out of their dies as possible, and perhaps the dies weren't of the hardest alloys, wearing quickly? Most of their bronze coins are found with considerably off-center strikes from worn dies, and not at all well-preserved. This is an iconic Seleucid type with Eros and Headdress of Isis, Antiochus VII (138-129 BC). I've been looking for "the" coin of this type to add to my collection for several years. Tom Wood came up with it at the last Baltimore show. It was one of those, "Oh, by the way, look at this..." moments. Although Isis was originally an Egyptian goddess, she found enormous cult followings among the peoples of the Levant, over many centuries. My one complaint about this coin is that Eros' wing could be clearer, but the specimen is otherwise so excellent that the complaint is only a whisper... [ATTACH=full]462883[/ATTACH] A fascinating combination of Greek and Egyptian deities.[/QUOTE]