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bgr_262542 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS Unité

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS Unité AU/XF
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Type : Unité
Date: 202
Date: c. 111-110 AC.
Mint name / Town : Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,52 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et irrégulier, bien centré. Buste inhabituel au droit. Frappe molle au revers, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Jolie patine vert olive foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de CFO (1994) et de la collection du Dr.Charles Haas

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste ailé d’Éros juvénile à droite ; grènetis circulaire.

Reverse


Reverse description : Niké (Victoria) volant à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant une couronne de la main droite tendue, couronnant le nom du roi et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : [BASILEWS]/ ANTIOCOU// FILO-PATOROS/ BS.
Reverse translation : (Du roi Antiochus qui aime son père/ an 202).

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS

(113-95 BC)

First 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.

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