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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GY95866
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus VII Euergetes Sidetes, 138 - 129 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |VII| |Euergetes| |Sidetes,| |138| |-| |129| |B.C.|, After his brother Demetrius was captured by the Parthians, Antiochus VII was made king. He married Demetrius' wife Cleopatra Thea. He defeated the usurper Tryphon at Dora and laid siege to Jerusalem in 134. According to Josephus, the Hasmonean king John Hyrcanus opened King David's sepulcher and removed three thousand talents, which he then paid Antiochus to spare the city. Sidetes then attacked the Parthians, supported by a body of Jews under Hyrcanus, and briefly took back Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Media before being ambushed and killed by Phraates II. His brother Demetrius II had by then been released, but the Seleucid realm was now restricted to Syria. Antiochus VII was the last Seleucid king of any stature.
GY95866. Silver tetradrachm, Houghton-Lorber II 2109(11)b; SNG Spaer 2089; Newell Tyre 145; HGC 9 1074; Cohen DCA 198; Sunrise 213; BMC Seleucid p. 70, 12 var. (ZB between legs), VF, excellent portrait, toned, centered, tight flan cutting off top of legend, bumps, marks, Phoenicia, Tyre (Lebanon) mint, weight 14.153g, maximum diameter 26.7mm, die axis 0o, 130 - 129 B.C.; obverse Antiochos VII diademed head right; reverse ANTIOXOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on prow, palm branch behind, A/PE monogram above (Tyre monogram) over club left, AvΣ monogram over date ΓΠP (Seleucid Era year 183) right, (control monogram) between legs; ex Roma Numismatics e-sale 62 (17 Oct 2019), lot 532; SOLD











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