v34_0289 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 445.00 €
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 445.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 199
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Damas
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’un style fin rehaussé par la patine. Revers avec une frappe un peu faible sur Zeus. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets acier
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, à demi-nu, la chlamyde sur l'épaule, tenant une étoile à huit raies de la main droite et de la gauche un sceptre long.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EPI-FANOUS/ (DIF)/ A/ G
Reverse translation : (Du roi Antiochus glorieux).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, Antiochus n’a pas l’appendice nasal proéminent qui le caractérise (grypus). Semble de même coin que l’exemplaire de la collection Spaer (SNG. Spaer ,° 2530, pL 160). Au droit, Zeus Ouranios présente un double symbole (luni-solaire).
On this example, Antiochus does not have the prominent nasal appendage that characterizes him (grypus). Seems to be from the same die as the example from the Spaer collection (SNG. Spaer, no. 2530, pL 160). On the obverse, Zeus Ouranios has a double symbol (lunisolar)
On this example, Antiochus does not have the prominent nasal appendage that characterizes him (grypus). Seems to be from the same die as the example from the Spaer collection (SNG. Spaer, no. 2530, pL 160). On the obverse, Zeus Ouranios has a double symbol (lunisolar)
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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