bgr_1022006 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS X EUSEBES Drachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS X EUSEBES Drachme AU

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Type : Drachme

Date: c. 94-92 AC.

Mint name / Town : Tarse

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,92 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Portrait agréable. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

SC. 2/2426 - CSE.- - Spaer-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

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

Reverse

Reverse description : Sandan, avec un arc et un carquois, tenant une double hache de la main gauche, levant la main droite, debout à droite sur le dos d’un lion cornu et ailé.

Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EUSEBOUS/ FILOPATOROS

Historical background

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS X EUSEBES

(94-92 BC)

Antiochus X, son of Antiochus IX Cyzicene declared himself king on the death of his father at Arados. He chased his cousin Seleucus VI from Antioch. After the death of the latter in Cilicia (at Mopsus), he still had to face the two brothers of the previous one, Antiochus XI and Philip Philadelphe. The latter two seized Antioch in 93 BC Antiochus XI was killed in the Battle of Antioch. Philip fled and was joined again by one of his brothers, Demetrius. Antiochus X died fighting the Parthians. He had married Cleopatra Selene, wife of his father and his uncle who bore him a son, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus.

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