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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > SH21204
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus II Theos, 261 - 246 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |II| |Theos,| |261| |-| |246| |B.C.|, Antiochus II Theos was the son of Antiochus I and Princess Stratonice, the daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes. He inherited a state of war with Egypt and while he was thus occupied, his satraps in Parthia and Bactria declared independence. To make peace with Egypt and to seal the treaty, Antiochus repudiated his wife Laodice I, exiled her to Ephesus, and married Ptolemy II's daughter Berenice. Antiochus later left Berenice and their infant son Antiochus, to live again with Laodice. Laodice poisoned him, had Berenice and her infant son murdered, and proclaimed her son Seleucus II as king.
SH21204. Silver tetradrachm, Newell ESM 189, SNG Spaer 390, Houghton 963, VF, Seleukeia on the Tigris (south of Baghdad, Iraq) mint, weight 16.74g, maximum diameter 29.4mm, die axis 0o, c. 255 - 246 B.C.; obverse diademed head right; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ANTI-OXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, examining arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, monogram outer left, monogram outer right; SOLD











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