bgr_322825 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR Tétradrachme
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Price : 650.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 300 AC.
Mint name / Town : Séleucie de Piérie, Syrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 16,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grénetis visibles. Beau portrait d’Héraklès. Revers à l’usure régulière. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
HGCS. 9/16 d - Spaer33 - Gülnar 2/2886 var. - WSM.890 pl. 37/11 - CSE.401 - SC.29 /1b - Cop.32 - BMC.23 - Gülnar 2/2743
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté, nouée sous le cou ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus nicéphore trônant à gauche sur un siège avec dossier, nu jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant une petite Niké de la main droite qui le couronne et un long sceptre bouleté de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche un monogramme etdeux lettres grecques sous le trône ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS]/ SELEUKOU/ KR.
Reverse translation : (du roi Séleucus).
Commentary
Même coin que l’exemplaire de New York (coll. Newell), Le Rider, Antioche de Syrie sous les Séleucides, Paris, 1999, p. 15, n° 4, pl. 1, n° 13).
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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