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"Collecting Coins and the Conflict in Syria"

A version of the article published in the ANS magazine 2015:4, pp. 7-13 by 
Ute Wartenburg Kagan.

Interesting article with some constructive suggestions for getting answers to where your coins come from. 

Time for "don't ask/don't tell" in the collector/dealer relationship to end. 

Collecting Coins and the Conflict in Syria by Ute Wartenburg Kagan

Greece/Seleucid/Interregnum, posthumous issue of Antiochus IV, BCE 146/5



AR Drachm, 17 mm, 3.98 g, 12h, Antioch mint c. BCE 146/5

SC 1886c
HSC 745 (R1-2)
Mørkholm, NC 1960, 9

O: diad hd of Antiochus IV r.

R: BAΣIΛEΩΣ on right ANTIOXOY [E]ΠIΦANOYΣ in two lines on left, in ex. Θ

Apollo std l on omphalos, holding arrow, and grounded bow.