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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GS10751
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus VIII Grypus, 121 - 96 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |VIII| |Grypus,| |121| |-| |96| |B.C.|, The epithet, "Golden," suggests that the appearance of Antioch was impressive, but the city needed constant restoration due to frequent earthquakes. The first great earthquake in recorded history, related by the native chronicler John Malalas, occurred in 148 B.C. and did immense damage.
GS10751. Silver tetradrachm, SNG Spaer 2493, Newell SMA 365, aEF, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 16.45g, maximum diameter 28.8mm, die axis 0o, First Adult Reign, 121 - c. 114 B.C.; obverse diademed head right, fillet border; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, Zeus, crescent above head, standing left, star in extended right and long scepter in left hand, IE / A in left field, A inner right, laurel wreath border; areas of encrustation on reverse; SOLD











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