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bgr_420019 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Unité

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Unité AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 220.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 295-290 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légèrement décentré au droit avec le grènetis visible. Belle tête d’Apollon. Joli revers particulier. Patine marron
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; grènetis circulaire.

Reverse


Reverse description : Athéna Promachos debout à droite, coiffée d’un casque corinthien, vêtue de l’égide et du chiton, brandissant une javeline de la main droite et tenant un casque de la main gauche ; dans le champ à droite une contremarque, une ancre renversée.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ [S]ELEU[KOU].
Reverse translation : (du roi Séleucus).

Commentary


L’ancre renversée ne semble pas une contremarque mais comme disposée par rapport à Athéna.

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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