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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3217267, member: 96635&quot;]I picked up some boat coins from the Seleucid Empire, I thought it might make a nice little set. One of the boat coins is quite rare, it is a quasi-municipal type and hard to find in good condition with full visible inscription (and boat).</p><p><br /></p><p>Quasi-municipal coins are coins which bear the portrait of the governing king as a sign of his sovereign royal authority but his name is replaced or complemented by the name and often the type of the issuing city.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Note: I made the pictures myself, let me know your opinion and advice about them).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://image.ibb.co/djAD80/37.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Antiochos VII Euergetes (138 B.C. - 129 B.C) Bronze coin<b>, quasi-municipal type</b>. Tyre Mint, <b>136/5 B.C.</b></b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Diademed head of Antiochos VII right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ. Galley left; ΞΟΡ (date: S.E. 177 = 136/5 B.C.) above.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>SC 2112; SNG Spaer 2035-8; Newell, Tyre 147; Hoover 1092.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting they used in the inscription &quot;ΙΕΡΑΣ&quot; meaning holy or sacred. Sacred Tyre.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://image.ibb.co/gx3KFf/24.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Seleukos IV Philopator <b>(187 B.C. - 175 B.C.)</b> Serrated Bronze Coin. Antioch mint.</b></p><p><b><b>Obverse:</b> </b>Wreathed and draped bust of Dionysos right, thyrsos over shoulder.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ ΣΕΛΕYΚΟΥ. Prow of galley left; control marks above (off flan?).</p><p><b><b>Reference: </b></b>SC 1316; HGC 9, 586.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://image.ibb.co/fhDao0/23.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Demetrios II Nikator (146 B.C. - 138 B.C) (1st reign) Bronze Coin. Tyre mint, 144/3 B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse: </b>Diademed head of Demetrios II right.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTΡIOY TYΡIΩN, of Tyre in Phoenician. Stern of galley left; ΘΞΡ (date: SE 169 = 144/3 B.C.) above.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>SC 1968.3; HGC 9, 1000; DCA 171.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is interesting because of the Phoenician inscription below, which was quite common for civic issues, but I did not know it also happened on issues from the king. Also, very cool patina!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also picked up this Ptolemy I Obol (my first Ptolemy coin).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://image.ibb.co/b2AzFf/36.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Ptolemy I Soter Bronze Obol (305 B.C. - 282 B.C). Alexandria mint.</b></p><p><b>Obverse: </b>Head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Eagle with open wings standing left on thunderbolt. π/ϒ monogram to left.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>Svoronos 220; SNG Copenhagen 52.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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