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Tetradrachm - Demetrius II Nicator Seleucia on the Tigris
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 145 BC - 141 BC |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Seleucia on the Tigris |
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Demetrius II retook the Seleucid throne from the usurper Alexander Balas in 145 BC with Ptolemaic backing — his father-in-law Ptolemy VI died in the same campaign — and immediately faced the eastern problem that had plagued the dynasty for decades. These Seleucia-on-Tigris issues date to precisely the window before the Parthians under Mithridates I drove him out of Mesopotamia entirely, capturing Demetrius himself around 141 BC. He spent roughly a decade as a Parthian prisoner, an episode almost without parallel among Hellenistic monarchs.