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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 4588835, member: 73473&quot;]Nice coins of my favorite Seleucid monarch!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I particularly like the 1st and 3rd coins that you have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fun fact, Antiochus I indirectly won the battle of Ipsus in 301 when he was routed by Demetrius and Pyrrhus, thus allowing his father to create an elephant screen to block them from falling upon the coalition’s phalanx.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136304[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antiochus I Soter Tetradrachm</p><p>SC 379.3c; HGC 9</p><p>16.73 g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136307[/ATTACH]</p><p>SELEUCID KINGDOM. Antiochus II Theos (261-246 BC). AR tetradrachm (32mm, 16.99gm, 12h). Phocaea. <b>Diademed head of Antiochus I right, elderly to middle ages, with full hair and aquiline nose</b>; dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANT-IOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalus, testing arrow in right hand, left hand on grounded bow to right behind; forepart of griffin left in upper, outer left field, A(PT) monogram in outer right field. SC 508. Extremely rare - no examples in sales archives. Pleasant medium gray old collection toning. Extreme high relief.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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