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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3294185, member: 82322&quot;]I also have a coin said to be from the Bekaa valley.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]871548[/ATTACH] </p><p>Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos III. 223-187 B.C. AE (16 mm, 4.01 g, 11 h). Uncertain mint 60, probably a military mint in Coele-Syria (the modern Beqaa Valley, Lebanon).</p><p>Obv: Macedonian shield with gorgoneion on boss</p><p>Rev: Elephant advancing right.</p><p><i>Seleucid Coinage</i> 1089</p><p><br /></p><p>See <a href="https://www.academia.edu/8693022/Antiochus_III_in_Coele_Syria_and_Phoenicia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/8693022/Antiochus_III_in_Coele_Syria_and_Phoenicia" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/8693022/Antiochus_III_in_Coele_Syria_and_Phoenicia</a> Arthur Houghton, &quot;Antiochus III in Coele Syria and Phoenicia&quot; for discussion too complex to summarize for the location of the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Houghton thinks the coinage was intended for the military, not the people of the region.&nbsp; I had never heard of the Itureans before this post.&nbsp; Had they arrived by the time of the Fifth Syrian war?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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