Live auction - bgr_364709 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS X EUSEBES Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 1 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 600 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 September 2015 14:27:10 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 94 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré, court sur la légende de revers. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers finement détaillé. Magnifique patine de médaillier grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Alotte de la Füye, vente Florange-Ciani, Paris février 1924, n° 954, de la vente de Lyon d’octobre 1982, n° 238, de la vente Vinchon du 25 octobre 2001 et de la collection François Charrin
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée d’Antiochus X à droite sans favori, entourée de la stemma.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus nicéphore nu jusqu’à la ceinture trônant à gauche, tenant une Niké de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIOCOU// EUSEBOUS/ FILOPATOROS/ (SW)/ A/ (DI).
Reverse translation : (du roi Antiochus pieux qui aime son père).
Commentary
Le seul exemplaire signalé par les auteurs du SC est celui de la vente Mammoy du 8 décembre 1977, n° 142 (SC 2429/1c).
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - ANTIOCHUS X EUSEBES
(94-92 BC)
Antiochus X, son of Antiochus IX Cyzicene declared himself king on the death of his father at Arados. He chased his cousin Seleucus VI from Antioch. After the death of the latter in Cilicia (at Mopsus), he still had to face the two brothers of the previous one, Antiochus XI and Philip Philadelphe. The latter two seized Antioch in 93 BC Antiochus XI was killed in the Battle of Antioch. Philip fled and was joined again by one of his brothers, Demetrius. Antiochus X died fighting the Parthians. He had married Cleopatra Selene, wife of his father and his uncle who bore him a son, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus.
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