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Live auction - bgr_382165 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IV EPIPHANES Tétradrachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IV EPIPHANES Tétradrachme AU/AU
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Estimate : 9 500 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 01 March 2016 14:14:25
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: été - automne
Date: c. 168 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,73 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés, complet au revers. Très beau portrait à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine grise superficielle. A été nettoyé anciennement
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Rauch, 12 septembre 2006, n° 310 (pièce de couverture) et de MONNAIES 51, n° 259

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et laurée de Zeus à droite entourée de la stemma.

Reverse


Reverse description : Zeus Olympios nicéphore assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant de la main droite une Niké et de la gauche un sceptre long.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ ANTIOCOU - QEOU/ EPIFANOUS// NIKHFOROU.
Reverse translation : (Du roi Antiochus divin glorieux victorieux).

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Jameson, p. 411, n° 1700, pl. LXXXV et que l’exemplaire du trésor de Susiane de 1965 (IGCH. 1806), cf. RN. 1966, p. 115, n° 32, pl. V.

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IV EPIPHANES

(175-164 BC)

Antiochus IV was the youngest son of Antiochus III. He had been sent to Rome as a hostage after the Peace of Apamea. He fought the Egyptians, ravaged the Temple of Jerusalem and won several victories over Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC).

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