v41_0280 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Obole
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Obole
Date: c. 295-280 AC
Mint name / Town : Médie, Ecbatane
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 0,65 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré au droit, légèrement hors champ au revers. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine de collection ancienne, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès imberbe à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche, les jambes croisées, sur un siège avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDOU/ I/ O
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum, MP. 3952c, pl. CXLII.
Appears to have the same obverse die as the British Museum copy, MP. 3952c, pl. CXLII
Appears to have the same obverse die as the British Museum copy, MP. 3952c, pl. CXLII
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR
(323-280 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type - Satrapos
Seleucus I (355-280 BC), one of Alexander's lieutenants, arrived in 323 BC in Babylon. He became a satrap in 321 BC, but was dispossessed of it by Eumenes in 316 BC. He only recovered his territories after the victory of Gaza in 312 BC, won by Ptolemy on Demetrius Poliorcetes. He fights against Antigone le Borgne (310-308 BC) and also leads a great conquest that takes him to India. After 306 BC, he took the title of Basileos and opposed Cassander and Lysimachus who disputed Asia Minor with him. After the death of Antigone at Ipsos in 301 BC, he is the most powerful diadoque with Ptolemy. He won the victory of Couroupédion in 281 BC where his old enemy, Lysimachus was killed. He was assassinated the following year at the instigation of Ptolemy Keraunos as he prepared to invade Thrace and Macedonia. Ultimate survivor of the Diadochi, he leaves the Empire of Alexander in the hands of the Epigoni.
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