bgr_384421 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS II KALLINIKOS Tétradrachme
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Price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 230-225 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain occidental
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 15,40 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
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Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Abdo Ayoub
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et diadémée de Séleucus II à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Apollon, nu debout à gauche appuyé du coude gauche sur le trépied, tenant une flèche de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche et à droite, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ SEL-EUKOU/ (PUMR)/ (WP
Reverse translation : (du roi Séleucus).
Commentary
Poids léger. Monogramme placé verticalement dans le champ à gauche. Semble inédit et non recensé avec ce type de monogramme et la tête barbue de Séleucus qui semble infiniment plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Lightweight. Monogram placed vertically in the field on the left. Seems unpublished and unrecorded with this type of monogram and the bearded head of Seleucus which seems infinitely rarer than general works suggest.
Lightweight. Monogram placed vertically in the field on the left. Seems unpublished and unrecorded with this type of monogram and the bearded head of Seleucus which seems infinitely rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS II KALLINIKOS
(246-226 BC)
Seleucus II, the eldest son of Antiochus II and Laodice, acceded to the throne the same year as Ptolemy III in 246 BC, coinciding with the start of the Third Syrian War. Peace between Lagides and Seleucids was signed that year. Seleucus II, beaten by his brother at Ancyra in 239 BC, began a campaign against the Parthians in 231, then died in 226 BC, victim of a fall from his horse after an insignificant reign of twenty years.
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