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Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) (121/0-97/6 BC). Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire (Seleucid Empire (305 BC - 64 BC)) |
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| Year | 109 BC - 96 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SC 2309; SNG Spaer 2693-2700 |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Nikephoros enthroned left on a high-backed throne, his body draped, extending his right hand to hold a small Nike (Victory) who faces left with outstretched wings, and grasping a long scepter upright in his left hand. An EP monogram appears above the A control mark in the outer left field, with an additional monogram beneath the throne. The entire type is enclosed within a dense laurel wreath border, with the royal legend disposed in two lines flanking the central type. |
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| Mintage | ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) ND (109 BC - 96 BC) |
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Antiochos VIII earned the nickname Grypos — "hook-nose" — from his contemporaries, a rare instance of an ancient epithet attached to a physical feature rather than a divine claim. His reign was fractured almost immediately by civil war against his half-brother Antiochos IX Kyzikenos, and the Seleucid kingdom spent most of these decades as two competing territorial blocs rather than a unified state. Coins struck during this period circulated across a shrinking domain.
SC 2309 places this issue among the later Antiochene output, after the mint had largely stabilized following the conflicts of the 110s BC.