- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.1965.2634
- People
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Antiochos VIII Grypos, Greek (r. 126/5-96 BCE)
- Title
- Tetradrachm of Antiochos VIII Grypos of Syria
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 121 BCE-107 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Ptolemaïs-Ake (Phoenicia)
- Period
- Seleucid period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/148528
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 14.93 g
- Die Axis
- 12
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- SC II 2336.2, LSM 35
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
- Object Number
- 1.1965.2634
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Diademed head of Antiochos VIII r., diadem ends falling straight behind, fillet border.
Rev.: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY in two lines on r., EPIPHANOYS on l., Zeus Uranius, draped, standing l. holding star and resting on sceptre, laurel wreath border.
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