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GREEK - King Antiochos VIII (Grypos) of the Seleucid Kingdom 121-96 B.C.
Bronze 18mm Reference: Sear 7154

Obverse:
His radiate head right.

    Reverse:
Eagle standing left, scepter in background; legend as last; in field to left, IE; in exergue, Seleukid date BPP (=192=121/20 B.C.) and palm.-

This undistinguished son of Demetrios II, having disposed of his mother in 121 B.C. embarked on an inglorious reign of a quarter of a century. For much of this time he was at warwith his half-brother, Antiochos IX, and this disastrous perioud witnessed the final decline of the once0mighty Sleukid realm into a minor ast Mediterranean state.

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