Syria, Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochos I Soter (281-261 BC). Tetradrachm c.274-270 B.C., Seleucia of the Tigris.
B.C. Diademed head to right of Antiochos I. Rv. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ. Apollo seated left on the omphalos, holding a bow with his right hand; on the left, monogrammed ΑTP; on the right, monogrammed ΗΡ.
CSE 950 - ESM 149 - SC.379.3. ; Silver - 17,17 g - 27,6 mm - 8 h
From a sale Gorny & Mosch 60, 5 October 1992 No. 258 then Numismatica Genevensis V, 2 December 2008 No. 137 and Numismatica Genevensis 9 No. 69
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Of great freshness and high relief. Superb. Exceptional copy, probably one of the most beautiful known for this type.
Antiochos I Soter (the Saviour) is one of the main Epigones, heirs of the Diadochs, as son of Seleucus I, founder of the Seleucid Empire, born around 324 BC. His mother was a Persian noblewoman named Apama. Co-regent in 292, he became king in 281 after the assassination of his father. He maintained the overall integrity of the Empire, although facing revolts, with secession of Anatolia and confrontations with the Lagids and Attalids. It was in 261 BC that he died in a battle against Eumenes I of Pergamon. This magnificent tetradrachm shows us the portrait of the powerful king aged about 50 years
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