Show BUY SILVER OWN COIN british museum acquires relic of babylon ls la very rare and highly prized london T the he british museum has haig just acquired a silver coin of timar cillis chus satrap of babylon part of 0 the syrian empire Ti marchus on the death of the reigning king of syria Antl Anti ochus ivy ivr in D B C usurped the throne thron le refusing to acknowledge demetrius ind and his wife laodice the legitimate successors Ti marchus reigned only ono one year during which time ho he struck a few colus coins which are now cow very rare of these one Is a unique gold coin now in the berlin museum aoth erta unique silver coin of one which la in in the british museum until recently no nc a sped men of the larger four drachin sliver silver coin was known to exist aalst exco except pt one which had bad been takers takei by the legitimate rulers demetrius and his wife and rea truck with their portraits bast I ast year a coin hearing bearing the eulley of oi tim archus was sold atan nt an auction in germany and another example taken i the british museum a short time ago has now been mccurd for the natio national naZ collection i |