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Seleucid Kingdom. Antiochus III. 223-187 BC. Tetradrachm, 16.83g. (12h). Antioch, c. 197-187 BC. Obv: Diademed head of Antiochus III right, one diadem end waving upward behind, the other falling forward over shoulder, fillet border. Rx: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤ-ΙΟΧΟΥ Apollo, slight drapery on right thigh, seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting left hand on grounded bow with five pellets on its grip; in outer left field bow in bowcase. SC 1045.2. WSM 1116ζ, pl. XXXI.14-15. Le Rider, Antioche, p. 142, nos. 197-219, pl. 15, 19-21. Marvelous high relif portrait. EF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
Antiochus III the Great was the last ruler who managed to unite nearly the whole Seleucid empire in its old glory. After his successful campaigns in the Upper Provinces in the East (Armenia, Parthia, Baktria, and northwest India) he defeated the Ptolemaic army in Palestine and thus reconquered the southern Syrian coast. However, his secret alliance with Philip V of Macedon brought him into conflict with the Romans. He was heavily defeated several times, particularly at Magnesia in 190 BC. This coin might have been issued for financing his campaigns against the Romans in the Aegean.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
Antiochus III the Great was the last ruler who managed to unite nearly the whole Seleucid empire in its old glory. After his successful campaigns in the Upper Provinces in the East (Armenia, Parthia, Baktria, and northwest India) he defeated the Ptolemaic army in Palestine and thus reconquered the southern Syrian coast. However, his secret alliance with Philip V of Macedon brought him into conflict with the Romans. He was heavily defeated several times, particularly at Magnesia in 190 BC. This coin might have been issued for financing his campaigns against the Romans in the Aegean.