Striking rare serrated “Bottle Cap” coin! Antiochos IV Epiphanes was king of of the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC to his death in 164 BC. Notable events in his reign include his near conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt, his persecution of the Jews in Judea and Samaria, and the rebellion of the Jewish Maccabees. His accession to the throne was controversial and his eccentric and cruel behavior led his contemporaries to call him Epimanes (The Mad). He is often taken as being a prototype of the Antichrist.

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