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Live auction - bgr_403385 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS HIERAX Tétradrachme

SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS HIERAX Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 2 200 €
Price : 1 200 €
Maximum bid : 1 881 €
End of the sale : 27 September 2016 14:28:09
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 241-227 AC
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie de Troade
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage souvent fruste. Portrait de toute beauté, légèrement tréflé. Revers de style fin, extraordinaire. Recouvert d’une épaisse magnifique patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés acier
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 34, n° 271 et de la collection D. C

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d'Antiochus Hiérax à droite ; le diadème est ailé.

Reverse


Reverse description : Apollon assis à gauche sur l'omphalos, appuyé de la main gauche sur son arc et tenant de la main droite une flèche ; deux monogrammes dans le champ à gauche ; à l’exergue, un cheval debout à gauche.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// (KA) (MTO)
Reverse translation : (Du roi Antiochus).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Staatliche Museen de Berlin (WSM. n° 1577, pl. LXXIV, n° 4) et que l’exemplaire de la collection Arthur Houghton (CSE. n° 643, pl. 37). E. T. Newell signalait déjà que tous les exemplaires recensés étaient tout du même coin de droit. C. Lorber et A. Houghton signalent que tous les exemplaires du graveur B (SC. 878 1 à 6) sont tous de même coin de droit, graveur B.

Historical background


SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS HIERAX

(241-227 BC)

Antiochus Hierax, younger son of Antiochus II and Laodice, is the brother of Seleucus II. With the help of his mother, Antiochus managed to seize Asia from 241 BC but in 238, he was beaten by Attalus I of Pergamon and found himself in a defensive situation. Ten years later, he attacked his brother's domains, but was defeated. He died the following year during a brawl between him and a group of Gallic looters..

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