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Syria Syria
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Seleucus I and the Monetization of Syria Seleucus I and the Monetization of Syria
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Dynastic and Personal Coinage Dynastic and Personal Coinage
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Quasi-municipal and Civic Coinage Quasi-municipal and Civic Coinage
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Foreign Coinage and Foreign Intervention in Syria Foreign Coinage and Foreign Intervention in Syria
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The Age of Autonomy The Age of Autonomy
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An Armenian Interlude and the Coming of Rome An Armenian Interlude and the Coming of Rome
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Phoenicia Phoenicia
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The Ptolemies and the Closure of Phoenicia The Ptolemies and the Closure of Phoenicia
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The Sinews of War The Sinews of War
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Quasi-municipal Coinage Quasi-municipal Coinage
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The Return of Regular Silver Production The Return of Regular Silver Production
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Autonomy and the Coming of Rome Autonomy and the Coming of Rome
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Southern Coele Syria Southern Coele Syria
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The Ptolemaic Period The Ptolemaic Period
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The Seleucid Period The Seleucid Period
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Autonomy and the Coming of Rome Autonomy and the Coming of Rome
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Bibliography Bibliography
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6 Coinage in Hellenistic Syria
Get accessOliver D. Hoover is an honorary curator at the American Numismatic Society, New York. He has published widely on Seleucid and other Near Eastern Hellenistic coinages, with particular interest in their political, cultural, and art historical implications. He co-authored Seleucid Coins, Part II: Seleucus IV through Antiochus XIII (2008) with Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber and has worked on the American Numismatic Society’s important digital resource, Seleucid Coins Online (http://numismatics.org/sco/). His current focus is on the completion of a multivolume handbook of Greek coinage, eleven volumes of which have been published so far.
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Published:22 April 2025
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Abstract
The territory of Greater Syria—Syria proper, Phoenicia, and Coele Syria—developed its own patterns of coin production and monetization, often in relation to the great empires of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies, and later to Rome. Syria became an important center of Seleucid coin production, especially at Antioch as the western and eastern portions of the Seleucid empire were lost. Under the Ptolemies the mints of Phoenicia and Coele Syria were used primarily to finance wars with the Seleucids before their absorption into the Seleucid Empire. The tension between civic and royal identities and aspirations took visible form on the coinage in the second century bc, with the introduction first of quasi-municipal and then of fully civic coins making no reference to the authority of the crumbling Seleucid dynasty.
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