ANTIOCHOS VII BRONZE AE19_____Seleukid Empire____WINGED EROS & HEADDRESS OF ISIS

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18T056
FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE GREEK COIN OF ANTIOCHOS VII OF THE SELEUKID EMPIRE FROM 138 - 129 BC .
Antiochos VII married Cleopatra Thea
THE SIZE IS 19.3 MM AND 5.67 GRAMS.
SC 2067
OBVERSE – Winged bust of Eros right. (Eros was the Greek god of love, or more precisely, passionate and physical desire)
REVERSE – BASI?EOS ANTIOXOY EYEPGETOY, Isis headdress
Antiochus VII Euergetes, nicknamed Sidetes (from Side), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 138 BC to 129 BC. He was the last Seleucid king of any stature.
The brother of Demetrius II, Antiochus was elevated after Demetrius' capture by the Parthians. He married Cleopatra Thea, who had been the wife of Demetrius. Their offspring was Antiochus IX, who thus became both half-brother and cousin to Seleucus V and Antiochus VIII.
Sidetes defeated the usurper Tryphon at Dora and laid siege to Jerusalem in 134. According to Josephus the Hasmonean king John Hyrcanus opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents, which he then paid Antiochus to spare the city. Sidetes then attacked the Parthians, supported by a body of Jews under Hyrcanus, and briefly took back Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Media before being ambushed and killed by Phraates II. His brother Demetrius II had by then been released, but the Seleucid realm was now restricted to Syria.
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