MADE TO ORDER: Elephant on "Bottlecap" Seleukig Kingdom Coin 144 BC
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
The coin measures about 22 mm diameter and weighs 7.5 grams (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Antiochos IV, Seleukid Kingdom
Obverse: radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VI right, wreathed with ivy
Reverse: elephant left, holding torch with raised trunk
Struck 145 - 142 BC
Antiochus VI Dionysus (ca. 148–138 BC), king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the son of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt. Antiochus VI did not actually rule. He was nominated in 145 BC by the general Diodotus Tryphon as heir to the throne in opposition to Demetrius II, and remained the general's tool. In 142 BC, Diodotus deposed and succeeded him and in 138 BC announced that he had contracted an internal disease and supposedly required surgery, which was presumably used to cover his murder at his supposed benefactor's bequest.
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
The coin measures about 22 mm diameter and weighs 7.5 grams (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Antiochos IV, Seleukid Kingdom
Obverse: radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VI right, wreathed with ivy
Reverse: elephant left, holding torch with raised trunk
Struck 145 - 142 BC
Antiochus VI Dionysus (ca. 148–138 BC), king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the son of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt. Antiochus VI did not actually rule. He was nominated in 145 BC by the general Diodotus Tryphon as heir to the throne in opposition to Demetrius II, and remained the general's tool. In 142 BC, Diodotus deposed and succeeded him and in 138 BC announced that he had contracted an internal disease and supposedly required surgery, which was presumably used to cover his murder at his supposed benefactor's bequest.
This listing is made to order, meaning I will make the pendant and ship within three weeks. Visit this page and download the Custom Order guide to all setting options (both in silver and gold).
The coin measures about 22 mm diameter and weighs 7.5 grams (see picture with a US quarter for scale).
Antiochos IV, Seleukid Kingdom
Obverse: radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VI right, wreathed with ivy
Reverse: elephant left, holding torch with raised trunk
Struck 145 - 142 BC
Antiochus VI Dionysus (ca. 148–138 BC), king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the son of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt. Antiochus VI did not actually rule. He was nominated in 145 BC by the general Diodotus Tryphon as heir to the throne in opposition to Demetrius II, and remained the general's tool. In 142 BC, Diodotus deposed and succeeded him and in 138 BC announced that he had contracted an internal disease and supposedly required surgery, which was presumably used to cover his murder at his supposed benefactor's bequest.