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bgr_420788 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Quart-unité

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Quart-unité AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Quart-unité
Date: c. 282-281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Méduse bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers. Belle patine verte
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de N&M et de la collection Laurent F

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Méduse ailée à droite ornée de serpents.

Reverse


Reverse description : Taureau chargeant à droite ; deux lettres entre les pattes arrières du taureau.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ SELEUKOU/ SI.
Reverse translation : (du roi Séleucus).

Commentary


Poids lourd.

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR

(323-280 BC)

Coinage in the name of Seleucos type - King

Seleucus I (355-280 BC), one of Alexander's lieutenants, arrived in 323 BC in Babylon. He became a satrap in 321 BC, but was dispossessed of it by Eumenes in 316 BC. He only recovered his territories after the victory of Gaza in 312 BC, won by Ptolemy on Demetrius Poliorcetes. He fights against Antigone le Borgne (310-308 BC) and also leads a great conquest that takes him to India. After 306 BC, he took the title of Basileos and opposed Cassander and Lysimachus who disputed Asia Minor with him. After the death of Antigone at Ipsos in 301 BC, he is the most powerful diadoque with Ptolemy. He won the victory of Couroupédion in 281 BC where his old enemy was killed. He was assassinated the following year at the instigation of Ptolemy Keraunos as he prepared to invade Thrace and Macedonia. Ultimate survivor of the Diadochi, he leaves the Empire of Alexander in the hands of the Epigoni.

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