Live auction - bgr_364548 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | 1 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 September 2015 14:12:18 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 311-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylonie, Babylone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers fantastique. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant d’origine et son coupant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 34, n° 266 et de la collection François Charrin
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore trônant à gauche sur un siège à dossier, tenant un aigle de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche monogramme dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : BASILEW[S]// ALEXANDROU/ MI/ (MUR)
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar II, n° 2400, pl. 68).
Same corners as the copy of the Meydancikkale treasure (Gülnar II, n° 2400, pl. 68)
Same corners as the copy of the Meydancikkale treasure (Gülnar II, n° 2400, pl. 68)
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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