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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2599409, member: 75937&quot;]Lovely coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, those Seleucids were all about keeping it in the family. Not only did Demetrius I marry his own sister, Laodike V, but his mom, Laodike IV, was the wife and sister of Antiochus, Seleucus IV Philopator, and Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Yep, she married three of her own brothers. It&#039;s a convoluted family tree.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s his mother:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]567144[/ATTACH] </p><p>Selucia in Pieria, 175-164 BC </p><p>AE 3.33 gm; 15 mm </p><p>Obv: Veiled bust of Laodike IV, r. </p><p>Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ (of King Antiochus), elephant head l.; prow. </p><p>Refs: Ex-Houghton, plate coin of Coins of the Seleucid Empire; Forrer 183[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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