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Live auction - bgr_520954 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme MS
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Estimate : 1 500 €
Price : 750 €
Maximum bid : 750 €
End of the sale : 05 March 2019 14:33:10
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 196
Mint name / Town : Damas, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,29 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale, très légèrement décentré. Magnifique tête d’Antiochus VIII. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Très jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Antiochus VIII à droite, entourée de la stemma.

Reverse


Reverse description : Zeus Uranios debout à gauche, la tête surmontée d'un croissant, nu, tenant une étoile à huit raies de la main droite et de la gauche un sceptre long.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EPI-FANOUS/ (AB)/ (LF)// SRR
Reverse translation : (Du roi Antiochus glorieux).

Commentary


Sur cet exemplaire, Antiochus n’a pas l’appendice nasal proéminent qui le caractérise (grypus). Au revers, Zeus Ouranios présente un double symbole (luni-solaire). Type daté frappé en 117-116 avant J.-C., an 196 de l’ère séleucide qui débute en 312 avant J.-C. après le retour de Seleucus Ier à Babylone. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la LIVE Auction 1004 (bgr_364684).
On this example, Antiochus does not have his characteristic prominent nasal appendage (grypus). On the reverse, Zeus Ouranios has a double (lunisolar) symbol. Dated type struck in 117-116 BC, year 196 of the Seleucid era which began in 312 BC after the return of Seleucus I to Babylon. Same obverse die as the example from LIVE Auction 1004 (bgr_364684)

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS

(121-96 BC)

First reign

Antiochus VIII with the long nose (grypos) is the eldest son of Demetrius II and Cleopatra Thea. After a regency between 125 and 121 BC with his mother, whom he ended up poisoning before being assassinated himself, he had to fight for twenty years against his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicene (of Cyzicus) . Antioch had to be retaken four times. Antiochus reigned there from 121 to 113, then in 112 and 111, from 111 to 109, finally from 108 to 96 BC. Antiochus VIII was assassinated by his son Seleucus VI who also killed his uncle Antiochus IX before being himself eliminated by Antiochus X, son of Antiochus IX in 96 BC, a beautiful family story.

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