Live auction - bgr_686831 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Statère d'or
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | 1 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 650 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 December 2022 14:28:33 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 317-311 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylonie, Babylone
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,43 g.
Rarity : R1
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable de frappe un peu molle
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil du 23 avril 1979. Exemplaire sous coque NGC VF (Strike 5/5, Surface 2/5)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, orné d'un serpent ; les cheveux tombant sur la nuque en mèches mêlées.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant de la main droite une couronne et de la gauche la stylis ; dans le champ à droite, un monogramme dans une couronne ; devant la Niké, un globule ; tête barbue de satyre à gauche.
Reverse legend : BASI-LEWS/ ALEXANDROU/
Commentary
Monnaie montée anciennement. Au revers, dans le champ inférieur gauche, la tête du satyre est complètement décalée, comme levée vers le ciel. Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du British Museum (MP. 3735a et 3735b) pl. XII.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR
(323-280 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type - Satrapos
Seleucus I (355-280 BC), one of Alexander's lieutenants, arrived in 323 BC in Babylon. He became a satrap in 321 BC, but was dispossessed of it by Eumenes in 316 BC. He only recovered his territories after the victory of Gaza in 312 BC, won by Ptolemy on Demetrius Poliorcetes. He fights against Antigone le Borgne (310-308 BC) and also leads a great conquest that takes him to India. After 306 BC, he took the title of Basileos and opposed Cassander and Lysimachus who disputed Asia Minor with him. After the death of Antigone at Ipsos in 301 BC, he is the most powerful diadoque with Ptolemy. He won the victory of Couroupédion in 281 BC where his old enemy, Lysimachus was killed. He was assassinated the following year at the instigation of Ptolemy Keraunos as he prepared to invade Thrace and Macedonia. Ultimate survivor of the Diadochi, he leaves the Empire of Alexander in the hands of the Epigoni.
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