Live auction - bgr_340391 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | 1 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 400 € |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2014 14:38:05 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 96-95 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec la stemma complète au droit. Très beau portrait d’Antiochus IX. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la prestigieuse collection du Porfesseur S. Pozzi, Lucerne, 14 mars 1921, n° 3025
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d'Antiochus IX à droite, entourée de la stemma.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus nicéphore, nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à gauche, tenant une petite Niké de la main droite qui le couronne et un long sceptre de la main gauche ; le tout dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ ANTIOCOU// FILO-PATOROS/ (EL)/ A/ (DI).
Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus qui aime son père).
Commentary
Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Sur cet exemplaire, au droit, la tête du roi est imberbe et au revers la couronne de la Niké est pointée. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Weber, Hirsch XXI, 1908, n° 4131, pl. LIV et que l’exemplaire représenté dans l’ouvrage de Hoover, HGCS. 9/1232, p. 252.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS IX CYZICENUS
(113-95 BC)
Fourth reign
Antiochus IX, the son of Antiochus VII and Cleopatra Thea, was raised in Cyzicus, hence his nickname. His half-brother, Antiochus VIII, tried to assassinate him in 116 BC and the next twenty years were one continuous series of civil wars. Antioch will be taken and retaken four times. Antiochus, who takes the title of king and Philopator (one who loves his father) in 113 BC, married Cleopatra who was murdered by his own sister, Cleopatra Tryphemus, wife of Antiochus VIII. The following year, when he took over Antioch, Antiochus IX had his sister-in-law executed in revenge. A truce is signed the following year; it will last five years. The fratricidal war resumed in 106 BC, Antiochus VIII was assassinated in 96 BC and his eldest son Seleucus VI succeeded him. The following year, Antiochus IX, defeated, kills himself so as not to fall alive into the hands of his nephew, a beautiful family story.
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