bgr_427935 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Tétradrachme
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Price : 850.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 282-281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré au droit, légèrement décentré au revers. Belle tête de Séleucus. Joli revers de style fin. belle patine de collection ancienne avec des refets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore trônant à gauche sur un siège à dossier, tenant une Niké (victoriola) de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche un monogramme, un autre monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// SELEUKOU/ (EB).
Reverse translation : (le roi Séleucus).
Commentary
Poids léger. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar II, n° 2832, pl. 84) et que l’exemplaire de la collection Spaer (n° 65, pl. 4). Au revers au lieu de l’aigle (aétophore) nous avons une petite victoriola (nicéphore) associée à Zeus.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR
(323-280 BC)
Coinage in the name of Seleucos type - King
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 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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