bgr_287728 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ALEXANDER I BALAS Hemichalque
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Hemichalque
Date: an 166
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tyr
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Alexandre Ier. Revers inhabituel. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB en 1990
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Démetrius Ier à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Palmierdattier.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU - BASILEWS/ sXR
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre/ an 166 ).
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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