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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3351129, member: 96635&quot;]Great coin David, I have not seen that type before and a great write up, thank you for sharing!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Indian elephants were so important in Seleukos army, I think if Seleukos did not receive those 600 elephants from Chandragupta, the Battle of Ipsus would have been victorious by the Antigonids. It were those elephants that prevented Demetrios to assist his father.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have any special Seleukid elephant coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/xWg7Mnk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Antiochus VI Dionysus Serrated Bronze Coin (144 B.C. - 142 B.C)</b></p><p><b>Obverse: </b>Diademed, radiate head of Antiochos VI right, wreathed with ivy; dotted border.</p><p><b>Reverse: </b>‘ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ’ in two lines above, ‘ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ’ in two lines below (“of King Antiochos, the Manifest Dionysos”); elephant walking left, holding torch in raised trunk.</p><p>21mm; 8.5g</p><p><br /></p><p>This one does have neat countermarks:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/qk8aqya.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Antiochos III Megas (223 B.C. - 187 B.C.) Bronze Coin, Military mint (ca. 210 B.C.)</b></p><p><b>Obverse: </b>Laureate head of Antiochos III as Apollo right, doted border.</p><p><b>Reverse: </b>ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ.&nbsp;&nbsp; Elephant right, ridden by mahout, two countermarks: anchor in oblong punch in left field and horse&#039;s head in square punch under elephant’s belly.</p><p>19mm; 9.55g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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