Live auction - bgr_364564 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS HIERAX Tétradrachme

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Estimate :	2 000 €
Price :	1 850 €
Maximum bid :	2 023 €
End of the sale :	29 September 2015 14:14:56
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: c. 261 AC.

Mint name / Town : Lampsaque, Mysie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 17,14 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait particulier d’Antiochus Hierax. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

WSM.1543 - Gülnar 2/- - SC.851 /3 - HGCS. 9/403 c (R2)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de Den of Antiquity le 29 mai 2008, de la vente Parsy du 28 novembre 2013, n° 8 et de la collection François Charrin

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Antiochus II, à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Apollon nu assis à gauche sur l'omphalos, tenant de la main droite une flèche et appuyé sur son arc de la gauche ; à l’exergue un trépied stylisé et un monogramme.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU/ .

Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus).

Commentary

Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage d’A. Houghton (SC 850/2, pl. 39). Sur notre exemplaire le trépied stylisé à l’exergue ressemble à un monogramme.

Historical background

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS HIERAX

(241-227 BC)

Antiochus Hierax, younger son of Antiochus II and Laodice, is the brother of Seleucus II. With the help of his mother, Antiochus managed to seize Asia from 241 BC but in 238, he was beaten by Attalus I of Pergamon and found himself in a defensive situation. Ten years later, he attacked his brother's domains, but was defeated. He died the following year during a brawl between him and a group of Gallic looters..