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The British Museum has acquired a rare four-drachm silver coin of Timarchus, Satrap of Babylon, who usurped the Syrian throne in 162 B.C. and reigned for one year. Previously, only a restruck example was known; this is a unique specimen bearing his effigy.
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British Museum Acquires Relic of Babylon—Is Very Rare and Highly Prized.
London.—The British museum has just acquired a silver coin of Timarchus, Satrap of Babylon, part of the Syrian empire.
Timarchus on the death of the reigning king of Syria, Antiochus IV., in 162 B. C., usurped the throne, refusing to acknowledge Demetrius and his wife, Laodice, the legitimate successors. Timarchus reigned only one year, during which time he struck a few coins, which are now very rare. Of these one is a unique gold coin now in the Berlin museum; another a unique silver coin of one drachm, which is in the British museum. Until recently no specimen of the larger four drachm silver coin was known to exist except one, which had been taken by the legitimate rulers, Demetrius and his wife, and restruck with their portraits. Last year a coin bearing the effigy of Timarchus was sold at an auction in Germany, and another example, taken to the British museum a short time ago, has now been secured for the national collection.
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british museum secured a unique four-drachm silver coin of timarchus; previously only a restruck example known; one sold at auction in germany last year.
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The British Museum acquired a rare silver coin of Timarchus, who usurped the Syrian throne after Antiochus IV's death in 162 B.C., refusing to acknowledge Demetrius and Laodice. He reigned one year and struck few coins, now very rare. This four-drachm coin bears his effigy and is unique.