bgr_897818 - SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS II KALLINIKOS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. avant 240 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,71 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna à droite avec l’égide sur la pointe du cou, coiffé du casque corinthien à cimier entourée d’un grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse description : Apollon, nu debout à gauche appuyé sur son arc de son bras gauche, tenant une flèche de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ SEL-EUKOU/ (PU).
Reverse translation : (du roi Séleucus).
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS II KALLINIKOS
(246-226 BC)
Seleucus II, the eldest son of Antiochus II and Laodice, acceded to the throne the same year as Ptolemy III in 246 BC, coinciding with the start of the Third Syrian War. Peace between Lagides and Seleucids was signed that year. Seleucus II, beaten by his brother at Ancyra in 239 BC, began a campaign against the Parthians in 231, then died in 226 BC, victim of a fall from his horse after an insignificant reign of twenty years.
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