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v51_0258 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS IV PHILOPATOR Tétradrachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS IV PHILOPATOR Tétradrachme AU
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 930.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 210.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 187-175 AC.
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Antioche
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,05 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Séleucus IV, de haut relief. Très joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Myers 12, 4 décembre 1975, n° 242 et de la vente Gorny 55, 14 mai 1991, n° 338

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Séleucos IV à droite, entourée de la stemma.

Reverse


Reverse description : Apollon assis à gauche sur l'omphalos, tenant une flèche de la main droite et appuyé de la gauche sur son arc ; dans le champ à gauche, une couronne et une palme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ SELE-UKOU/ (DI).

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Houghton (CSE, p. 5, pl. 5) et que l’exemplaire de la collection Pozzi (n° 2960 = Le Rider, pl. 18, n° 1). Cet exemplaire est décrit par G. Le Rider dans son ouvrage sur Antioche, p. 167, n° 23.

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS IV PHILOPATOR

(187-175 BC)

Seleucus IV Philopator (the one who loves his father), the second son of Antiochus III the Great (223-187 AC), ensured great military commands in the war between the Seleucids, the kingdom of Pergamon and the Romans. After the defeat of Magnesia of the Meander in 190 BC, Antiochus III was forced to sign the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. This agreement carved up the kingdom and consecrated the final loss of Asia Minor . The following year, Antiochus III was assassinated by the revolted crowd of Élymais who punished the King for wanting to dispossess the temple of Anaitis. Seleucus IV was regent in Antioch at the time of his father's death. The new king had to endure during his reign the disastrous conditions of the Peace of Apamea, pay the heavy indemnity and consolidate what remained of the great kingdom. In 175, the Romans freed his older brother, who had been captive for thirteen years. Seleucus was assassinated at the instigation of his prime minister Heliodorus who replaced him with the last son of Antiochus III, Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

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