Tetradrachm - Antiochos VII Sidetes Tyre

Antiochos VII was the last Seleucid king to exercise genuine control over the eastern territories, including a campaign that briefly retook Babylonia from the Parthians. These Tyrian tetradrachms were struck during precisely that eastern push, making them contemporary with the final moment of Seleucid imperial ambition. He died in 129 BC during the Parthian counteroffensive — killed in a night attack on his camp — and the dynasty never recovered effective eastern authority afterward.

Tyre operated as a prolific and well-organized mint under Seleucid administration, and SC 2116 is among the better-documented issues of his reign.