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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos V Eupator. 164-162 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.58 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Struck 164 BC. Diademed head of Antiochos V as a young child right; AY monogram to left / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo, nude, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right, seated left on omphalos; AY monogram to outer left, NE monogram to outer right, ΛB and HP monograms in exergue. SC 1581a; Houghton & Le Rider II 6 (D1/R2 – this coin, illustrated); HGC 9, 751b; CSE 772 (same obv. die); SNG Spaer 1252 (same obv. die). Toned, minor die wear. Good VF.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Robert Schonwalter Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1493.
The unusually youthful portrait on this very rare issue of Ptolemaïs led Houghton and Le Rider to speculate that these tetradrachms may belong to a coregency of Antiochos IV and V during the former's eastern campaign. The absense of the title Eupator from this issue, which would have been assumed by Antiochos V at the time of his father's death, suggests this issue was struck when Antiochos IV was still living. While Antiochos IV was in the east, Lycias, the Seleukid vice regent, was campaigning in Judaea to put down the revolt of the Maccabees, and it is possible that he required coinage to be produced at the mint of Ptolemaïs for this purpose. Interestingly, the monogram on the obverse of this issue, which is different from all other obverse controls at Ptolemaïs, could be resolved as the first letters of Lysias's name.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Robert Schonwalter Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1493.
The unusually youthful portrait on this very rare issue of Ptolemaïs led Houghton and Le Rider to speculate that these tetradrachms may belong to a coregency of Antiochos IV and V during the former's eastern campaign. The absense of the title Eupator from this issue, which would have been assumed by Antiochos V at the time of his father's death, suggests this issue was struck when Antiochos IV was still living. While Antiochos IV was in the east, Lycias, the Seleukid vice regent, was campaigning in Judaea to put down the revolt of the Maccabees, and it is possible that he required coinage to be produced at the mint of Ptolemaïs for this purpose. Interestingly, the monogram on the obverse of this issue, which is different from all other obverse controls at Ptolemaïs, could be resolved as the first letters of Lysias's name.