SELEUKID EMPIRE. Kleopatra Selene & Antiochos XIII. Circa 83/2-75 BC. Æ (20mm, 9.35 g, 12h). Probably Damaskos mint. VF.

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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Kleopatra Selene & Antiochos XIII. Circa 83/2-75 BC. Æ (20mm, 9.35 g, 12h). Probably Damaskos mint. Jugate heads right of Kleopatra, wearing veil, diadem, and stephane, and Antiochos, wearing diadem / BACIΛICCHC KΛЄOPATRAC CЄΛHNHC KAI BA-CIΛЄΩC [A]N-TIOXOY [ΦIΛ]OMHTPOC (sic), Nike, wearing long chiton, advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand. SC 2484 corr. (legend); HGC 9, 1337; CSE 2, 824 (same dies); Pitchfork 86 = N.L. Wright, “A Late Seleukid Bronze Hoard, c. 1988 (CH 10.349)” in CH X, 200 (this coin). Dark green-brown patina, some roughness. VF. Extremely rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex 1988 Unknown Findspot (“Late Seleukid Bronze”) Hoard (CH X, 349).

Born into the Ptolemaic Dynasty, Kleopatra Selene’s first marriage was to her brother, Ptolemy IX. She was left behind after her husband’s expulsion from Alexandreia, then was remarried to Ptolemy X, which again resulted in divorce. It was decided that she would instead marry into the Seleukid dynasty, being wed to Antiochos VIII. Following his untimely assassination, Kleopatra Selene had to choose between which of Antiochos’ brothers or sons to align herself with, deciding to marry her former husband’s half-brother, Antiochos IX. This marriage would also end in tragedy, as Antiochos was soon killed in battle by Seleukos VI. She fled Antioch with her stepson to Arados, where the two would marry. The new king Antiochos X rallied against his father’s killer, driving Seleukos out of Antioch, and later defeating the former king’s avenging brothers. Sometime after Antiochos X was killed fighting the Parthians, Kleopatra Selene acted as regent to her still-underage son, Antiochos XIII. This would not last, however, and she was killed during Tigranes II’s siege of Ake-Ptolemaïs.

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