Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1913 — BUY TIMARCHUS SILVER COIN [ARTICLE]

BUY TIMARCHUS SILVER COIN

British Museum Acquires Relic of Babylon—ls Very Rare and Highly Prized. London. —The British museum has Just acquired a silver coin of Tlmarchus, Satrap of Babylon, part of the Syrian empire. Tlmarchus 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; auother 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 Tlmarchus 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.