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Greece/Seleucid; Antiochus VII Sidetes BCE 138-129


AE 20 mm, 6.55 g, 12h, Tyre mint   SE 179=BCE 134/3

SC 2113.2, Newell Tyre 151

O : diad hd of Antiochus r., diadem ends falling straight behind, dotted border.

R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY in two lines above, TYP monogram IEP AΣY monogram and Phoenician inscription “of Tyre” in two lines in ex., stern of galley, date in ex θOP, dotted border.


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