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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4541367, member: 110350"]I've posted this coin before, but I didn't ask at the time if anyone knows what the two different monograms on the reverse signify -- see the boldfaced portion of my coin description:</p><p><br /></p><p>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; <b>to outer left, P/E monogram above A; ΔI monogram below throne</b>; 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.) [D. Sear, <i>Greek Coins & their Values, Vol. II: Asia & Africa</i> (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Oliver Hoover, <i>Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 9</i> (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [E.T. Newell, <i>The Seleucid Mint of Antioch</i> (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [A. Spaer & A. Houghton, <i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins</i> (London, 1998)]; BMC Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [<i>erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI</i>] [P. Gardner, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria </i>(London, 1878)]. 27 mm., 16.2 g. (<i>Purchased from Frank S. Robinson in Feb. 2020 auction</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1124210[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are closeups of the two monograms:</p><p><br /></p><p>The P/E above A, on the left:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1124211[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The ΔI monogram below the throne:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1124212[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These same two monograms appear on most of the examples of this coin type shown at Seleucid Coins Online (<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>).</p><p><br /></p><p>They also appear on the British Museum's example on Plate XXVI of its 1878 catalog volume entitled <i>The Seleucid Kings of Syria </i>(for whatever reason, erroneously attributing the coin to Antiochos XI):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1124213[/ATTACH]</p><p>Does anyone have any idea what either of these two monograms signifies?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4541367, member: 110350"]I've posted this coin before, but I didn't ask at the time if anyone knows what the two different monograms on the reverse signify -- see the boldfaced portion of my coin description: 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; [B]to outer left, P/E monogram above A; ΔI monogram below throne[/B]; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ; all within laurel wreath. [I]Seleucid Coins[/I] [SC] Pt. 2, 2309; [I]Seleucid Coins Online[/I] [same] (see [URL]http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309);[/URL] Seaby 7145 (ill.) [D. Sear, [I]Greek Coins & their Values, Vol. II: Asia & Africa[/I] (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Oliver Hoover, [I]Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 9[/I] (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [E.T. Newell, [I]The Seleucid Mint of Antioch[/I] (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [A. Spaer & A. Houghton, [I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins[/I] (London, 1998)]; BMC Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [[I]erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI[/I]] [P. Gardner, [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria [/I](London, 1878)]. 27 mm., 16.2 g. ([I]Purchased from Frank S. Robinson in Feb. 2020 auction[/I].) [ATTACH=full]1124210[/ATTACH] Here are closeups of the two monograms: The P/E above A, on the left: [ATTACH=full]1124211[/ATTACH] The ΔI monogram below the throne: [ATTACH=full]1124212[/ATTACH] These same two monograms appear on most of the examples of this coin type shown at Seleucid Coins Online ([URL]http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309[/URL]). They also appear on the British Museum's example on Plate XXVI of its 1878 catalog volume entitled [I]The Seleucid Kings of Syria [/I](for whatever reason, erroneously attributing the coin to Antiochos XI): [ATTACH=full]1124213[/ATTACH] Does anyone have any idea what either of these two monograms signifies?[/QUOTE]
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