v45_0173 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 120-117 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aké-Ptolémais,Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,46 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Antiochus, légèrement mou. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers. Patine superficielle de collection ancienne
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection A. S.
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/ M
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 de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Spaer (SNG. Spaer, n° 2581, pl. 163).
In this example, Antiochus does not have the prominent nasal appendage that characterizes him (grypus). Seems to have the same obverse die as the example in the Spaer collection (SNG. Spaer, no. 2581, pl. 163)
In this example, Antiochus does not have the prominent nasal appendage that characterizes him (grypus). Seems to have the same obverse die as the example in the Spaer collection (SNG. Spaer, no. 2581, pl. 163)
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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