Live auction - bgr_421527 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 450 € |
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| End of the sale : | 02 May 2017 14:20:47 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 115-113 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aké-Ptolémais,Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Antiochus VIII avec de petits défauts de laminage sur le visage. Joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 57, n° 190 et de la collection JMB
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Antiochus VIII à droite, entourée de la stemma.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus Uranios, nu jusqu’à la ceinture, debout à gauche, la tête surmontée d'un croissant, à demi-nu, la chlamyde sur l'épaule, tenant une étoile à huit rais de la main droite et de la gauche un sceptre long (emblème luni-solaire).
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EPI-FANOUS// DAR
Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus glorieux).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, Antiochus n’a pas l’appendice nasal proéminent qui le caractérise (grypus). La stemma est bien visible sur notre exemplaire. Il y avait trois exemplaires de ce type dans le trésor de Kessab (IGCH. 1568), enfoui vers 110 avant J.-C. et qui contenait plus de 388 monnaies d’argent dont 102 tétradrachmes d’Antiochus VIII avec 70 pièces pour l’atelier d’Aké-Ptolémaïs.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS
(121-96 BC)
First reign
Antiochus VIII with the long nose (grypos) is the eldest son of Demetrius II and Cleopatra Thea. After a regency between 125 and 121 BC with his mother, whom he ended up poisoning before being assassinated himself, he had to fight for twenty years against his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicene (of Cyzicus) . Antioch had to be retaken four times. Antiochus reigned there from 121 to 113, then in 112 and 111, from 111 to 109, finally from 108 to 96 BC. Antiochus VIII was assassinated by his son Seleucus VI who also killed his uncle Antiochus IX before being himself eliminated by Antiochus X, son of Antiochus IX in 96 BC, a beautiful family story.
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