- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.2587
- People
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Antiochos IV Epiphanes, Greek (r. 175-164 BCE)
- Title
- Drachm of Antiochos IV Epiphanes of Syria
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 175 BCE-164 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Syria
- Period
- Seleucid period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/148419
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.91 g
- Die Axis
- 10
- Denomination
- drachm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- SC II 1545.1
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.2587
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Diademed head of Antiochos IV, one diadem end flying up behind, the other falling forward over shoulder, border of dots.
Rev.: Naked Apollo seated l. on omphalos, holding arrow and bow. In ex., Pi monogram
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