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Dichalkon - Antiochos VII
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 138 BC - 129 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Eros facing right, depicted in the Hellenistic artistic tradition with youthful features and winged shoulders partially visible. The portrait is rendered in low relief characteristic of Seleucid bronze coinage of the period. The field is plain and uninscribed, with no legend present on the obverse. The coin surface exhibits the irregular flan typical of hammered bronze issues of the era. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEΡΓETOY EOP (Translation: King Antiochos (VII) Euergetes) |
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Antiochos VII Sidetes was the last Seleucid king to exercise genuine control over the eastern territories, including a brief but remarkable reconquest of Babylonia and Media from the Parthians beginning around 130 BC. His campaign initially succeeded where his predecessors had failed for decades, before collapsing catastrophically in 129 BC when Parthian forces under Phraates II destroyed his army — and killed Antiochos himself — during the winter quarters. Bronze issues like this dichalkon circulated through a kingdom that was, within months of the final strikes, permanently reduced to a Syrian rump state it would never recover from.