v51_0282 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS Drachme

AU/AU

MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €

Type : Drachme

Date: c. 96-95 AC.

Mint name / Town : Cilicie, Tarse

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,80 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait inhabituel d’Antiochus IX imberbe. Représentation tout à fait exceptionnelle du revers avec une usure superficielle. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

B. - BMC. - CSE.- - Spaer- - HGCS. 9/1238 - SC. 2/2356 c

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Hirsch 165, 14-16 février 1990, n° 495

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête imberbe et diadémée d'Antiochus IX à droite, entourée de la stemma.

Reverse

Reverse description : Sandan debout à droite sur un lion-griffon cornu passant à droite ; Sandan est coiffé d’un bonnet phrygien, tenant de la main gauche une double hache et tendant la main droite dans l’attitude de la proskynèse ; arc et carquois sur l’épaule.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// FILOPATOROS/ (PU)/ (PR).

Commentary

Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Le seul exemplaire signalé de notre variété provient de la collection Nelson à Lancaster (SC. 2/ 2356c, p. 530).

Historical background

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS

(113-95 BC)

Fourth reign

Antiochus IX, the son of Antiochus VII and Cleopatra Thea, was raised in Cyzicus, hence his nickname. His half-brother, Antiochus VIII, tried to assassinate him in 116 BC and the next twenty years were one continuous series of civil wars. Antioch will be taken and retaken four times. Antiochus, who takes the title of king and Philopator (one who loves his father) in 113 BC, married Cleopatra who was murdered by his own sister, Cleopatra Tryphemus, wife of Antiochus VIII. The following year, when he took over Antioch, Antiochus IX had his sister-in-law executed in revenge. A truce is signed the following year; it will last five years. The fratricidal war resumed in 106 BC, Antiochus VIII was assassinated in 96 BC and his eldest son Seleucus VI succeeded him. The following year, Antiochus IX, defeated, kills himself so as not to fall alive into the hands of his nephew, a beautiful family story.