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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7634592, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks! This is the original Frank Robinson photo based on which I bought my coin last year. It&#039;s actually one of Frank&#039;s better photos, I think, but it still blurs when you try to zoom in, and the coin definitely looks better in hand and in my photo.</p><p>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1313203[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my 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; 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)]; 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)].&nbsp; 27 mm., 16.2 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]&#039;s example is clearly from different dies, but appears to have the same E/P monogram above A for Antioch as mine does, and its diameter and weight (27 mm., 16.25 g.) are almost identical to mine. Zeus himself appears to have the same hook nose on both coins, but his abs are flatter on mine. On [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]&#039;s, I&#039;m afraid he has a bit of a pot belly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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