v34_0267 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 800.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 1 278.00 €
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 800.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 1 278.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 290/286 - 281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Bactriane, Bactres ?
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 16,36 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait stylisé énigmatique. Revers historiquement important. Jolie patine gris foncé avec des reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna, casquée et vêtue militairement debout à droite dans un char tiré par quatre éléphants, brandissant un foudre de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de la main gauche ; au dessus du quadrige, une ancre.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// SELEUKOU
Reverse translation : (Du roi Séleucus).
Commentary
Notre exemplaire présente plusieurs petites variantes avec les exemplaires recensés. Les monogrammes, sont derrière le quadrige et à droite de la légende à l’exergue. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans SC (pl. 15, n° 60). Portrait très particulier qui n’a pas été retouché, mais est stylisé. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié avec cet arrangement de monogrammes.
Our example presents several small variations with the listed examples. The monograms are behind the quadriga and to the right of the legend in the exergue. Same obverse die as the example reproduced in SC (pl. 15, no. 60). Very particular portrait which has not been retouched, but is stylized. Seems completely unpublished and not listed with this arrangement of monograms
Our example presents several small variations with the listed examples. The monograms are behind the quadriga and to the right of the legend in the exergue. Same obverse die as the example reproduced in SC (pl. 15, no. 60). Very particular portrait which has not been retouched, but is stylized. Seems completely unpublished and not listed with this arrangement of monograms
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR
(323-280 BC)
Coinage in the name of Seleucos type - King
Seleucus I (355-280 BC), one of Alexander's lieutenants, arrived in 323 BC in Babylon. He became a satrap in 321 BC, but was dispossessed of it by Eumenes in 316 BC. He only recovered his territories after the victory of Gaza in 312 BC, won by Ptolemy on Demetrius Poliorcetes. He fights against Antigone le Borgne (310-308 BC) and also leads a great conquest that takes him to India. After 306 BC, he took the title of Basileos and opposed Cassander and Lysimachus who disputed Asia Minor with him. After the death of Antigone at Ipsos in 301 BC, he is the most powerful diadoque with Ptolemy. He won the victory of Couroupédion in 281 BC where his old enemy was killed. He was assassinated the following year at the instigation of Ptolemy Keraunos as he prepared to invade Thrace and Macedonia. Ultimate survivor of the Diadochi, he leaves the Empire of Alexander in the hands of the Epigoni.
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