Athenian Coin of Antiochus Epiphanes
This silver tetradrachma’s inscription says “of Athens” and names men associated with the coin’s production. One of them was Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who held a public office connected with coinage in Athens for an unknown period between leaving Rome in 189 B.C. and taking the Seleucid throne in 175. When he heard of his brother Seleucus IV’s assassination, he left Athens for Syrian Antioch to take charge. The elephant on the coin’s reverse alludes to the eastern Greek monarchs, thus to Antiochus’ own dynastic family.
1 Macc 1:20–25, 1 Macc 6:16, 2 Macc 4:7, 2 Macc 5:11–14, 2 Macc 9:1–29
1 Macc 1:20–25, 1 Macc 6:16, 2 Macc 4:7, 2 Macc 5:11–14, 2 Macc 9:1–29
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