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Tetrachalkon - Demetrios II Nikator uncertain
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 144 BC - 139 BC |
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| Value | Tetrachalkon (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΘEOY ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY NIKATOPOΣ (Translation: (of) the divine King Demetrios (II) the victorious who loves his brother.) |
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Demetrios II's first reign was precarious from the start. He retook the Seleucid throne from the usurper Diodotos Tryphon around 145 BC, but within a few years was campaigning in the east against the encroaching Parthians — a campaign that ended in his capture by Mithridates I around 139 BC. The "uncertain" mint attribution for this issue reflects the administrative disorder of that period, when royal coinage was being struck across a fragmented realm with diminishing central control.
Demetrios spent the following decade as a Parthian prisoner, though treated with sufficient dignity to marry a daughter of Mithridates I.