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E-Sale 22  28 November 2015
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Lot 339

Estimate: 2000 GBP
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Seleukid Kings of Syria, Antiochos XI and Philip I AR Tetradrachm. Diademed, lightly bearded heads of Antiochus XI and Philip I jugate right. / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY in two lines on right, KAI BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY in two lines on left, Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, holding Nike who crowns him and sceptre; monograms to outer left and under throne; laurel wreath border. SC II 2439, pl. 54 (same dies) = Brussels, de Hirsch 1728 = A4 in A. Houghton, SNR 66 (1987), pp. 79-85. For the chronology, see now O. Hoover, Historia 56 (2007), pp. 280-301. 15.22g, 28mm, 2h.

Pierced (Ancient), Good Very Fine. The ninth example known and only the second been offered to the market.

Of the entire jugate brothers series it is only the ninth specimens recorded. This coin is one of the most unusual in the entire Seleukid series. It also marks the end of the Seleukid Empire.
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