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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GB09101
Seleukid Kingdom, Demetrius II Nikator, 146 - 138 and 129 - 125 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Demetrius| |II| |Nikator,| |146| |-| |138| |and| |129| |-| |125| |B.C.|, Demetrius II ruled for two periods, separated by years of captivity in Parthia. He gained the throne with the help of Egypt, but general Diodotus rebelled, took Antioch and made Antiochus VI Dionysus his puppet king. Demetrius then ruled part of the kingdom from Seleucia. In 38 B.C. he attacked the Parthians but was defeated and captured, ending his first reign. The Parthians released him in 129 B.C. when his brother, Antiochus VII Sidetes, marched against Parthia. They hoped the brothers would fight a civil war but the Parthians soon defeated Sidetes, and Demetrius returned to rule Syria. His second reign portraits show him wearing a Parthian styled beard. His second reign ended when he was defeated and killed by yet another usurper set up by Egypt, Alexander II Zabinas.
GB09101. Bronze AE 19, Houghton-Lorber II 1968(4), SNG Spaer 1718, F, Phoenicia, Tyre (Lebanon) mint, weight 6.23g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 0o, 143 - 142 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Demetrios right; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, stern of galley left, date LOP (Seleucid Era year 170 ) above, TYPIΩN and Phoenician script "of Tyre" below; nice patina; SOLD











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