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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GB87759
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus III the Great, 222 - 187 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |III| |the| |Great,| |222| |-| |187| |B.C.|, In 213 B.C., after a two-year siege, allied with Attalus I of Pergamum, Antiochus III captured the rebel capital Sardes and executed the rebel king Achaeus. Houghton and Lorber explain that this that this larger denomination "A" does not fit Sardian tradition but the type is attributed to Sardes based on excavation finds. The type, overstruck on Antioch bronzes, was likely issued to support Antiochus' troops during the siege. Perhaps Antiochus' hoped larger coins would impress the troops and the local population.
GB87759. Bronze AE 25, Houghton-Lorber I 971(1); Newell WSM 1187 (Apamea); HGC 9 468 (R2), F, well centered, bumps and marks, light corrosion, Lydia, Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint, weight 11.981g, maximum diameter 25.2mm, die axis 45o, c. 215 - 213 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Antiochos III as Apollo right, short hair with longer locks on back of neck; reverse tripod lebes, BAΣIΛEΩΣ (king) downward on right, ANTIOXOY (Antiochus) downward on left; rare; SOLD











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