Live auction - bgr_372394 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 2 200 € |
| Price : | 2 900 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 900 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:19:49 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 212-210 AC.
Mint name / Town : Laodicée du Lycos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,83 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait fantastique. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Eukratides en 2003 et de la collection François Charrin
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d'Antiochus III à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Apollon nu assis à gauche sur l'omphalos, tenant une flèche de la main droite et appuyé sur son arc de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : [BA]SILEOS// ANT-IOCOU.
Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus).
Commentary
Exemplaire sans différent. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire décrit dans l’ouvrage Seleucid Coins (SC. 998/3, pl. 49). “Qualité exceptionnelle du style baroque hellénistique et de la conservation du métal donnant des surfaces satinées avec de très légères traces ponctuelles d’oxydation et une légère patine dorée”. Ce type était précédemment attribué à l’atelier de Sardes, voir d’Antioche. L’attribution à Laodicée du Lycos semble attestée.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS III THE GREAT
(223-187 BC)
Antiochus III, second son of Seleucus II, succeeded his brother Seleucus III in 223 BC. He first had to put down the revolt of Molon, a satrap of Media who had revolted and was only eliminated in 220 BC Having made the mistake of entrusting the military command of Asia Minor to his uncle Achaios, the latter revolted and Antiochus did not overcome the revolt until after the capture of Sardis in 214 BC. .-C. The decapitated usurper, he then restored Seleucid power in Parthia and Bactria. After Philip V was defeated at Cynoscephali and welcomed the exiled Hannibal, he became an implacable enemy of the Romans. After a first series of victories, he was finally defeated at Thermopylae and Magnesia in 189 BC. He had to sign the Peace of Apamea the following year, consecrating Roman hegemony and the end of Seleucid domination in Asia Minor, leaving Pergamum the arbiter of the situation. He was assassinated in 187 BC.
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