bgr_238096 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ALEXANDER I BALAS Dilepton
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Dilepton
Date: an 164
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tyr
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais à bord biseauté. Beau portrait. Revers inhabituel. Belle patine vert foncé et sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Démetrius Ier à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Palmier dattier.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU - BASILEWS/ DXR
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre/ an 164 ).
Commentary
Revers inhabituel pour l’atelier de Tyr.
Unusual setback for the Tyre workshop
Unusual setback for the Tyre workshop
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ALEXANDER I BALAS
(150-145 BC)
Alexander I Balas, who claimed to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164 AC.), succeeded Demetrius I Soter who was killed on the battlefield. He married Cleopatra Thea. With the help of Attalus II of Pergame (160-139 AC.) and Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 AC.), he managed to stay five years in Syria before being overthrown and massacred. Demetrius II succeeded him..
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