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The Circulation of Ptolemaic Silver in Seleucid Coele Syria and Phoenicia from Antiochus III to the Maccabean Revolt: Monetary Policies and Political Consequences

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Lorber C. C.

Electrum

2019

vol. 26

9-23

This paper examines the circulation of Ptolemaic silver in the closed monetary zone of Seleucid Coele Syria and Phoenicia. No new silver coinage entered the zone under Antiochus III and Seleucus IV, though hoards were deposited in the Transjordan and eastern Judah in the early years of Antiochus IV. Trade between Phoenicia and Egypt is excluded as an explanatory factor, but the patterns are consistent with Josephus’ account of the dowry of Cleopatra I and Tobiad tax farming. In the 160s BCE fresh Ptolemaic silver began to enter the closed monetary zone, with the earliest finds in Judah, Samaria, and “southern Palestine.” This new influx, like the didrachms “of an uncertain era,” may represent a subsidy from Ptolemy VI to the Maccabees and other dissidents from Seleucid rule.

The End of Greek Rule in Soghd. Early Euthydemus Imitations from Bukhara

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Naymark A.

Studia Hercynia

2024

vol. 28

issue 2

85-109

The composition of the finds of Hellenistic coins in Sogdiana suggest that Greeks lost control over this country during or right after the revolt of Euthydemus (ca. 230–226 BCE). Yet the standard type of the Bukharan imitations of Euthydemus’ tetradrachms, on which modern scholars base their dates of “Sogdian independence”, was minted around the time of Bactra siege – the peak of the eastern anabasis of Antiochus III (ca. 206 BCE). In other words, there is a gap of some 20 to 30 years between the dates derived from two different categories of numismatic evidence. The current article removes this seeming contradiction by presenting, chronologically arranging, and linking to their prototypes a series of Bukharan imitations that reproduces the early types of Euthydemus’ tetradrachms. This numismatic data allows the author to date the collapse of the Greek rule in Soghd to 230–226 BCE.

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The Circulation of Ptolemaic Silver in Seleucid Coele Syria and Phoenicia from Antiochus III to the Maccabean Revolt: Monetary Policies and Political Consequences

The End of Greek Rule in Soghd. Early Euthydemus Imitations from Bukhara