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Tetradrachm - Cleopatra Thea Sole Reign
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire (Seleucid Empire (305 BC - 64 BC)) |
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| Year | 126 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ KΛEOΠATPAΣ ΘEAΣ EYEPΓETIΔOΣ |
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Cleopatra Thea's sole reign lasted barely two years before her son Antiochus VIII forced her to drink the poisoned cup she had prepared for him — one of antiquity's more pointed reversals of fortune. These tetradrachms were struck at Ptolemais-Ake, the sole mint operating under her authority during this period, making the issue geographically constrained and mintage relatively limited by Seleucid standards.
She had previously appeared as a consort figure on the coinage of three successive husbands. Coins bearing her name alone, without a male co-ruler, mark an explicit assertion of autonomous dynastic power unprecedented among Seleucid queens.