{"product_id":"antiochus-vi-144-c142-bc-seleucid-kingdom-ar-tetradrachm","title":"Ancient Greek Silver Coin of King Antiochus VI Dionysus (Young Ruler of the Seleucid Empire)","description":"\u003ch4 bis_size='{\"x\":12,\"y\":9,\"w\":458,\"h\":39,\"abs_x\":12,\"abs_y\":9}'\u003eOwn a Near-Mint Silver Coin Struck in the Name of a Child King Who Would Be Dead Within Two Years\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp bis_size='{\"x\":12,\"y\":59,\"w\":458,\"h\":78,\"abs_x\":12,\"abs_y\":59}'\u003eA real Seleucid silver tetradrachm of Antiochus VI — struck at Antioch in 144\/3 BC in the name of a child ruler who was the puppet of a general plotting to seize the empire for himself. 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Rival claimants contested the throne, generals commanded armies that answered to personal ambition rather than royal authority, and the eastern provinces were slipping away to Parthian conquest. Into this chaos stepped \u003cstrong bis_size='{\"x\":12,\"y\":581,\"w\":398,\"h\":36,\"abs_x\":12,\"abs_y\":581}'\u003eGeneral Diodotus Tryphon\u003c\/strong\u003e, who produced a child — \u003cstrong bis_size='{\"x\":235,\"y\":601,\"w\":87,\"h\":17,\"abs_x\":235,\"abs_y\":601}'\u003eAntiochus VI\u003c\/strong\u003e, young son of the recently deposed Demetrius II — and proclaimed him king, placing the imperial crown on a boy's head while keeping real power firmly in his own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp bis_size='{\"x\":12,\"y\":694,\"w\":458,\"h\":176,\"abs_x\":12,\"abs_y\":694}'\u003eThe coins struck in Antiochus VI's name are among the most poignant in the entire Seleucid series. The obverse carries the \u003cstrong bis_size='{\"x\":12,\"y\":715,\"w\":403,\"h\":36,\"abs_x\":12,\"abs_y\":715}'\u003eidealized portrait of a young child\u003c\/strong\u003e — features soft and unformed, the face of someone too young to understand what was being done in his name. The reverse shows the \u003cstrong bis_size='{\"x\":161,\"y\":774,\"w\":186,\"h\":17,\"abs_x\":161,\"abs_y\":774}'\u003eDioscuri, Castor and Pollux\u003c\/strong\u003e, the divine twin protectors — an appeal to heavenly guardianship for a king who had none in the earthly world. Within approximately two years, Antiochus VI was dead — almost certainly murdered by Tryphon, who then claimed the throne for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp bis_size='{\"x\":12,\"y\":887,\"w\":458,\"h\":156,\"abs_x\":12,\"abs_y\":887}'\u003eThis tetradrachm was struck at the \u003cstrong bis_size='{\"x\":240,\"y\":888,\"w\":88,\"h\":17,\"abs_x\":240,\"abs_y\":888}'\u003eAntioch mint\u003c\/strong\u003e — the Seleucid capital in modern Turkey — in \u003cstrong bis_size='{\"x\":205,\"y\":907,\"w\":226,\"h\":17,\"abs_x\":205,\"abs_y\":907}'\u003eSeleucid Era year 169 (144\/3 BC)\u003c\/strong\u003e, during the brief window of Antiochus VI's nominal reign. 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