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Tetradrachm - Antiochos VIII Ake-Ptolemais
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 121 BC - 113 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ (Translation: King Antiochos (VIII, Grypos) Epiphanes) |
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Antiochos VIII — nicknamed Grypos, "hook-nose" — seized the Seleucid throne after orchestrating the poisoning of his mother Laodike IV, who had herself just poisoned his half-brother Seleukos V. The mint at Ake-Ptolemais, a Phoenician port city with a long history of switching allegiances, was one of several western mints Grypos activated to fund his prolonged civil war against his half-brother Antiochos IX Kyzikenos, a conflict that would consume the last decades of Seleucid coherence as a functioning state.