Tetradrachm - Antiochos IV Epiphanes Antioch in Persis

Antiochos IV is best remembered for the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple in 167 BC — the event that triggered the Maccabean Revolt and eventually gave the world Hanukkah. This coin falls squarely within that window. His epithet "Epiphanes," meaning god manifest, was a deliberate political program: he actively promoted his own divine status across the Seleucid realm, and the coinage was a primary vehicle for that assertion.

The Antioch in Persis mint attribution places this piece at the eastern edge of Seleucid reach, where control was perpetually contested by local dynasts and the expanding Parthian confederacy under Mithridates I.