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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 4705123, member: 73473&quot;]Fascinating read. I have always wondered when the Galatians stopped being viewed as invaders by the Greeks and local Anatolians.</p><p><br /></p><p>No Galatian coins, but how about a coin with the portrait of the King who contained the Celts in Galatia(thus&nbsp; making them Galatians)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155122[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></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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