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Tetradrachm - Antiochos II Theos
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire (Seleucid Empire (305 BC - 64 BC)) |
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| Year | 261 BC - 246 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; Φ to outer right. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY |
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Antiochos II inherited a kingdom at war — his reign began with the ongoing Second Syrian War against Ptolemy II, and the epithet "Theos" (god) was reportedly granted to him by the Milesians after he expelled a tyrant from their city, not by royal decree. The tetradrachm series of his reign was struck across a wide network of mints spanning from Asia Minor to Mesopotamia, making attribution to specific mint cities a persistent challenge for specialists even with the SC1 corpus as a framework.
SC 577.1 falls within the Antioch-on-the-Orontes attribution. Antiochos II died in 246 BC under disputed circumstances — possibly poisoned by his first wife Laodike after he had set aside her in favor of Berenike of Egypt.