bgr_830758 - SYRIA - SELEUKIS AND PIERIA - SELEUKEIA Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: An 20
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 9,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Foudre ailé.
Reverse legend : SELEUKWN.
Reverse translation : (de Séleucie).
Commentary
C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. la tête de Zeus fait penser aux monnayage d’argent de Séleucus Ier avec Athéna sur un quadrige d’éléphants (HGCS 9/ 18).
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKIS AND PIERIA - SELEUKEIA
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Seleucia, at the foot of Mount Pieria, was founded by Seleucus I in 300 BC just before Antioch and forms one of the cities of the Tetrapolis (Antioch, Apamea, Laodicea and Seleucia). The city was fortified and had port infrastructures which made it the outer port of Antioch, the metropolis of Syria. Seleucia was occupied by the Lagides between 246 and 219 BC. Antiochus VIII Grypus granted it autonomy in 109 BC. The city was besieged by Tigranes of Armenia during his invasion of Syria. Its status was maintained by Pompey when Syria became a Roman province in 64 BC..
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