v49_0437 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 196
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Sidon
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, un peu court au droit sur la stemma et le menton d’Antiochus. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente de Monte Carlo des 13-15 octobre 1980, n° 446 et de MONNAIES 36, n° 226
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/ SIDW/ IEP/AS/ SRR
Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus glorieux).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, Antiochus n’a pas l’appendice nasal proéminent qui le caractérise (grypus). Le revers présente un symbole luni-solaire. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Arthur Houghton (CSE. 723, pl. 42). Début de cassure de coin perceptible au droit au niveau de la lèvre.
On this example, Antiochus does not have his characteristic prominent nasal appendage (grypus). The reverse features a lunisolar symbol. Same obverse die as the example in the Arthur Houghton collection (CSE. 723, pl. 42). The beginning of a die break is visible on the obverse at the lip.
On this example, Antiochus does not have his characteristic prominent nasal appendage (grypus). The reverse features a lunisolar symbol. Same obverse die as the example in the Arthur Houghton collection (CSE. 723, pl. 42). The beginning of a die break is visible on the obverse at the lip.
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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