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Live auction - bgr_525831 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 650 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 29 October 2019 14:24:32
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 121-114 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,99 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré. Belle tête d’Antiochus VIII. Joli revers. Argent piqué et corrodé. A été nettoyé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


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

Reverse


Reverse description : Zeus Uranios nu jusqu’à la ceinture, debout à gauche, la tête surmontée d'un croissant, à demi-nu, la chlamyde sur l'épaule, tenant une étoile à huit raies (emblème luni-solaire) de la main droite et de la gauche un sceptre long.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EPI-FANOUS// IE/A/ R.
Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus Epiphane).

Commentary


Sur cet exemplaire, la stemma n’est pas visible. Début de cassure de coin perceptible sur la tempe. Nous n’avons pas relevé de liaison de coin pertinente. Nous avons deux exemplaires dans le trésor de Cilicie (IGCH. 1435) découvert en 1848, enfoui vers 115 avant J.-C. qui contenait 200 monnaies d’argent dont 101 tétradrachmes d’Antiochus VIII dont 25 pour l’atelier d’Antioche dont deux pour notre variété .

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS

(121-96 BC)

First 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 96 BC, a beautiful family story.

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