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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GS85100
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus VIII Grypus, 121 - 96 B.C., Akko-Ptolemais, Galilee
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |VIII| |Grypus,| |121| |-| |96| |B.C.,| |Akko-Ptolemais,| |Galilee|, Antiochus VIII Epiphanes Grypus (Hook-Nose) was crowned as a teenager, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra Thea. In 121 B.C., one day when he returned from a hunt, his mother offered him a cup of wine. Since this was not common behavior for her, Grypus was suspicious and forced her to drink the wine; poisoned, it killed her. Grypus fought a civil war with his brother that ended with his murder.
GS85100. Silver tetradrachm, Houghton-Lorber II 2335(2)a, Newell LSM 28, SNG Spaer 2581, HGC 9 1196g (R2), gVF, nice style, attractive toning, light marks, die break on chin, small edge cracks, Galilee, Ake Ptolemais (Acre, Israel) mint, weight 16.451g, maximum diameter 30.5mm, die axis 0o, 121 - 113 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Antiochus right, horn like lock of hair above ear, fillet border; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, Zeus Ouranios standing left, nude, crescent on head, star in right hand, long scepter in left hand, M outer left, all within laurel wreath; ex CNG auction 391, lot 305; ex Pegasi BBS 100 (17 February 1997), lot 159; SOLD











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