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Æ Hemiobol - Antiochos VIII Grypos
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 120 BC - 110 BC |
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| Thickness | 2.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Antiochos VIII earned the epithet "Grypos" — hook-nosed — from his contemporaries, which says something about the political climate of a dynasty too fractured to demand flattery. His reign was defined almost entirely by civil war against his half-brother Antiochos IX Kyzikenos, a conflict that consumed the Seleucid state from roughly 116 BC onward and left the eastern territories effectively ungovernable. Bronze issues of this period circulated in a shrinking kingdom; by 110 BC, Seleucid authority in much of the east had collapsed entirely to Parthian pressure.