- Object Name:
- Coin
- Title:
- Tetradrachm of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- Place Made:
- Antioch (Turkey)
- Date:
- 167 BCE
- Medium:
- Silver
- Dimensions:
- Diameter: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Samuel Friedenberg Collection
- Accession Number:
- FBS 220
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The Jewish Hasmonean family, which included Judah Maccabee, revolted against the repressive King Antiochus IV, freeing the Jews from the rule of the Seleucid Empire.
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