SELEUCID EMPIRE (312 BC - 63 BC) - DIODOCHI KINGDOM - HELLENISTIC CIVILIZATION REIGN OF PHILIP I PHILADELPHUS (95 BC - 84/83 BC) SILVER AR TETRADRACHM REVERSE: ZEUS ENTHRONED AND HOLDING LONG SCEPTRE IN LEFT HAND, THE GODDESS NIKE STANDING IN ZEUS' OSTRETCHED RIGHT PALM AND OFFERING TO HIM A LAUREL WREATH; GREEK LEGEND VERTICALLY FLANKING, LAUREL WREATH SURROUNDING. THE SELEUCID DYNASTY HAD BEEN EMBROILED IN A DEVASTATING CIVILWAR, WHICH HAD CLAIMED MANY DYNASTIC RELATIONS AND REDUCED THE ONCE GREAT AD GLORIOUS LINE TO LOCAL SUB-DYNASTIES AND NUMEROUS RIVAL CLAIMANTS. PHILP'S RULE CAME TO AN END WHEN TIGRANES "THE GREAT" OF ARMENIA CONQUERED SYRIA IN 83 BC (PLACING THE DATE OF THIS COIN MOST PROBABLY BETWEEN 95-83 BC). CONTAINS 15.37 GRAMS OF SILVER 28 MM IN DIAMETER |
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