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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2255738, member: 42634&quot;]I&#039;ve had &quot;Greek&nbsp; silver tetradrachm&quot; on my list for quite some time, some of the ones you all post here are lovely!&nbsp;&nbsp; Was also hankerin&#039; for a seulucid, hadn&#039;t picked one up for quite a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>I odered this one on October 9th, got to my house in Illinois form Germany on the 15th...not to shabby.&nbsp; Neither is the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/Qp6o2TqsEbn7eA4n9aHDxS8N3fjYgG_zpscw1k0iag.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/Qp6o2TqsEbn7eA4n9aHDxS8N3fjYgG_zpscw1k0iag.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/Qp6o2TqsEbn7eA4n9aHDxS8N3fjYgG_zpscw1k0iag.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6">SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Philip I Philadelphos, 95-83 BC. Tetradrachm. Antioch. </font></p><p>O: Diademed head right. R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΕΠIΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΦIΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ. Zeus seated left with Nike and sceptre: Control: monogram. SNG Israel 2799. Condition: Very fine. Weight: 15.7g. Diameter: 26 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>This fellow was about the last of the line for the once mighty Seleucids.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; His name means &quot;brother loving&quot;, he tolerated some of his brothers...and some he didn&#039;t.&nbsp; Syria was a mess of various family members engaged in civil war with foreign governments (Nabateans, Ptolemy crew) getting in the mix.&nbsp; Sound familiar?&nbsp; I think Philip pretty much just controlled Antioch by this point, so it&#039;s almost a &quot;civic issue&quot;.</p><p>Soon this cat named Tigranes the Great from Armenia rolled through, that&#039;s pretty much the end of the empire.&nbsp; Tigranes then got beat by the Romans, there was a brief Seleucid puppet king, but soon Syria was a Roman province.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the above is paraphrased from Wikipedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Man, does this thing feel nice in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post your silver tetradrachms, Seleucid coins, or anything from Syria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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