Seleucid Kingdom, King ANTIOCHUS IV portret and ELEPHANT 24KT gold pl.very rare

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Check out my other items ! Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! Welcome in our store We have the best rare and unique coins. We highly recommend you to add us to favorite seller so we can keep you update with the latest artifacts.All our items are 100 % original and we have 100% money back guarantee, for your satisfaction. (If you don’t like it, just return it same condition.) Our items are unique and are for serious collectors only. We have the best online customer service. Our agents are 20/7 So please do not hesitate to contact us.Happy Haunting buddies. VERY VERY RARE UNIQUE COIN of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes from Seleukid Kingdom For the first time this amassing coin is surfing on eBay. Estimate value based on other auctions 175-392 $ We start the auction with 0.99 cent. It comes in 24 KARAT Gold Plate to protect the coin from corrosion. After gold plating it have a special water proof layer. Legend facing right is a bust of king ANTIOCHUS IV Reverse/ Forhead of an Elephant weight (2.7g)13 mm. references from : Houghton 113 Coin much better than the photo, better in hand. Antiochus IV Epiphanes (the Jews Killer) Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( / æ nˈ taɪ .ə kə s ɛ ˈ pɪ fə niː z/ ; Greek : Ἀντίοχος Ἐπιφανής , 'God Manifest'; [1 ] c. 215 BC – 164 BC) ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. He was a son of King Antiochus III the Great . His original name was Mithridates; he assumed the name Antiochus after he ascended the throne.Notable events during the reign of Antiochus IV include his near-conquest of Egypt , which led to a confrontation that became an origin of the metaphorical phrase, " line in the sand " (see below ), and the rebellion of the Jewish Maccabees .Antiochus was the first Seleucid king to use divine epithets on coins, perhaps inspired by Bactrian Hellenistic kings who had earlier done so, or else building on the ruler cult that his father Antiochus the Great had codified within the Seleucid Empire. These epithets included Θεὸς Ἐπιφανής 'manifest god', and, after his defeat of Egypt, Νικηφόρος 'bringer of victory'. [2 ] However, Antiochus also tried to interact with common people, by appearing in the public bath houses and applying for municipal offices, and his often eccentric behavior and capricious actions led some of his contemporaries to call him Epimanes ("The Mad One"), a word play on his title Epiphanes .[ 1] [3 ] Rise to power As the son and a potential successor of King Antiochus III , Antiochus became a political hostage of the Roman Republic following the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. When his older brother, Seleucus IV followed his father onto the throne in 187 BC, Antiochus was exchanged for his nephew Demetrius I Soter (the son and heir of Seleucus). After King Seleucus was assassinated by Heliodorus , an usurper , in 175 BC, Antiochus in turn ousted him. Since Seleucus' legitimate heir, Demetrius I Soter , was still a hostage in Rome , Antiochus, with the help of King Eumenes II of Pergamum, seized the throne for himself, proclaiming himself co-regent for another son of Seleucus, an infant named Antiochus (whom he then murdered a few years later). [4 ] Wars against Egypt Main article: Sixth Syrian War When the guardians of King Ptolemy VI of Egypt demanded the return of Coele-Syria in 170 BC, Antiochus launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, conquering all but Alexandria and capturing King Ptolemy. To avoid alarming Rome , Antiochus allowed Ptolemy VI to continue ruling as a puppet king . Upon Antiochus' withdrawal, the city of Alexandria chose a new king, one of Ptolemy's brothers, also named Ptolemy (VIII Euergetes) . Instead of fighting a civil war, the Ptolemy brothers agreed to rule Egypt jointly.In 168 BC Antiochus led a second attack on Egypt and also sent a fleet to capture Cyprus . Before reaching Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single, old Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas , who delivered a mes... read more

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