Seleucid Empire, King Antiochus IV, Large Egyptian-Style AE Unit

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Seleucid Empire
• Authority: King Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• Date: 169 - 168 BCE
• Denomination: AE (bronze) unit, name unknown
• Mint: Antioch, Syria
• Size: 34mm, 37.17g
• Type Number: Seleucid Coins (part 2) 1413
• Obverse: Laureate head of Serapis with taenia right, Osiris cap atop taenia
• Reverse: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXΟΥ ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ - Eagle standing right on thunderbolt
• Notes: The Seleucid Empire was established by Seleucus I Nicator, a general of Alexander the Great, following the division of Alexander’s empire in 312 BCE. Centered in the Near East, it was a major Hellenistic state that blended Greek cultural and administrative practices with those of the diverse peoples it governed, spreading Hellenistic culture across a vast region from Anatolia to Central Asia.

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