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Price : 480.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 120-117 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aké-Ptolémais, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court sur la stemma au droit et la couronne au revers. Joli portrait d’Antiochus VIII. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine avec des reflets dorés
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Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Savoca et de la collection Laurent F
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Antiochus VIII à droite, entourée de la stemma.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus Uranios nu 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). Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
In this specimen, Antiochus does not have the prominent nasal appendage that characterizes him (grypus). This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
In this specimen, Antiochus does not have the prominent nasal appendage that characterizes him (grypus). This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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