bgr_470721 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Drachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Drachme XF

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Price : 100.00 €

Type : Drachme

Date: c. 108-96 AC.

Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,94 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier avec le grènetis visible au droit. Belle tête d’Antiochus VIII avec une faiblesse de frappe dans la chevelure visible aussi au revers sur le trépied. Patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - SMA.- - CSE.- - - Spaer- - GC.7149 - SC. 2/2304 - HGCS. 9/1209

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz en 2008 et de la collection François Charrin

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

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

Reverse

Reverse description : Trépied.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EPIFANOUS// (DF)/ I.

Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus glorieux).

Historical background

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS

(121-96 BC)

Fourth Reign

Antiochus VIII with the long nose (grypos) is the eldest son of Demetrius II and Cleopatra Thea. After a regency between 125 and 121 BC with his mother, whom he ended up poisoning before being assassinated himself, he had to fight for twenty years against his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicene (of Cyzicus) . Antioch had to be retaken four times. Antiochus reigned there from 121 to 113, then in 112 and 111, from 111 to 109, finally from 108 to 96 BC. Antiochus VIII was assassinated by his son Seleucus VI who also killed his uncle Antiochus IX before being himself eliminated by Antiochus X, son of Antiochus IX in 94 BC, a beautiful family story.

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme AU

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