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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8145488, member: 85693&quot;]Informative write-up and an interesting series of coins.&nbsp; I like that story about the lone ambassador stopping a war - superpower indeed! </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins, The Ptolemaic Bronze website calls them <b>Post-Conquest Egyptianized Series.&nbsp; </b>I have two of them from the four available in this series:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420414[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Seleucid</b> <b>Kingdom</b> <b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 32</b></p><p><b>Antiochos IV Epiphanes</b></p><p><b>Post-Conquest Egyptianized Series.&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Antioch Mint</b></p><p><b>(169-168 B.C.)&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p>Laureate head of&nbsp; Zeus-Serapis rt. / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt.</p><p>SC 1412; Svoronos 1416.</p><p>(35.62 grams / 32 mm)</p><p>eBay Mar. 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Seleucid</b> <b>Kingdom</b> <b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 27</b></p><p><b>Antiochos IV Epiphanes</b></p><p><b>Post-Conquest Egyptianized Series.&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Antioch Mint</b></p><p><b>(169-168 B.C.)&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p>Head of Isis right with taenia &amp; Isis headdress / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, eagle standing rt. on thunderbolt</p><p>SC 1414; SNG 981; Sv. 1417.</p><p>(14.15 grams / 27 mm)</p><p>eBay Apr. 2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is the Ptolemaic Bronze site on these: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b><font size="5">Antiochos IV - Post-Conquest Egyptianized Series of Antioch</font></b></p><p>This denomination series consists of four coins with single eagle reverse and no control letters in the eagle&#039;s legs, with the eagle facing right and the reignal name of Antiochos Theos Epiphanes. The time period follows the departure from Egypt by Antiochos IV in about 168BC following his brief conquest and reign with Ptolemy VI at Memphis. These coins are listed in Svoronos but they are Seleukid coins issued by Antiochos IV at Antioch following the failure to consolidate the Egyptian conquest. Some believe the coins&#039; issue may have preceded the invasion of Egypt. The Zeus figure on the largest type is not the usual Egyptian Zeus Ammon of large 3rd C. BC bronzes, rather Zeus laureate. The second size has (Zeus) Serapis with a laurel wreath and Isis headdress ornament at the top of the head. That type is not known on any Egyptian issue. The Isis portrait type is closest to a contemporary Egyptian design. The smallest coin has a traditionally Seleukid idealized radiate portrait seen on many other bronze issues of Antiochos IV. The other unusual feature on all of these is that the single closed-wing standing eagle faces right rather than the almost ubiquitously left-facing corresponding type on actual Ptolemaic bronzes.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" rel="nofollow">http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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