PHILIP I PHILADELPHOS SILVER TETRADRACHM____Seleukid Empire___REIGNED AS MONARCH

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER TETRADRACHM OF PHILIP I PHILADELPHOS OF THE SELEUKID EMPIRE FROM 95 - 75 BC .
NICELY TONED LARGE SILVER COIN
Philip I became king with his twin brother Antiochus XI
THE SIZE IS 26.6 MM AND 15.11 GRAMS.
Sear 7196
OBVERSE – Diademed head of Philip right
REVERSE – Zeus enthroned left, holding Nike and sceptre,
PHILIP I PHILADELPHOS
Philip I Epiphanes Philadelphos was a Hellenistic Seleucid monarch who reigned as the King of Syria from 95 to 75 BC. The son of Antiochus VIII and his wife Tryphaena, he spent his early life in a period of civil war between his father and his uncle Antiochus IX. The conflict ended with the assassination of Antiochus VIII and a quick succession in the Syrian capital Antioch of Antiochus IX then Antiochus VIII's eldest son Seleucus VI.
After the murder of Seleucus VI in 94 BC, Philip I became king with his twin brother Antiochus XI, and planned to avenge Seleucus VI. In 93 BC Antiochus XI took Antioch from Antiochus IX's son Antiochus X. Antiochus XI became the senior king, and Philip I remained in a base in Cilicia. Antiochus X returned and killed Antiochus XI that year. Philip I then allied with his younger brother Demetrius III, who was based in Damascus. Antiochus X was probably killed in 88 BC. Demetrius III took the capital and besieged Philip I in Beroea (Aleppo), but the latter prevailed and took Antioch; their youngest brother Antiochus XII took Damascus.
Philip I tried unsuccessfully to take Damascus for himself, after which he disappears from the historical record; there is no information about when or how he died. The Antiochenes, apparently refusing to accept Philip I's minor son Philip II as his successor, invited Tigranes II of Armenia to take the city.
SELEUKID EMPIRE
Seleukid kingdom, (312–64 BC) was an ancient empire that at its greatest extent stretched from Thrace in Europe to the border of India. It was carved out of the remains of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian empire by its founder, Seleukos I Nicator.
Seleukos, one of Alexander’s leading generals, became satrap (governor) of Babylonia in 321, two years after the death of Alexander. In the prolonged power struggle between the former generals of Alexander for control of the disintegrating empire, Seleukos sided with Ptolemy I of Egypt against Antigonus I, Alexander’s successor on the Macedonian throne, who had forced Seleukos out of Babylonia. In 312 Seleukos defeated Demetrius at Gaza using troops supplied by Ptolemy, and with a smaller force he seized Babylonia that same year, thereby founding the Seleukid kingdom, or empire.
The Seleukid kingdom was a major center of Hellenistic culture, which maintained the preeminence of Greek customs and manners over the indigenous cultures of the Middle East. A Greek-speaking Macedonian aristocratic class dominated the Seleukid state throughout its history, although this dominance was most strongly felt in the urban areas.
The Seleucid kingdom began losing control over large territories in the 3rd century BC. An inexorable decline followed the first defeat of the Seleukids by the Romans in 190. By that time the Aegean Greek cities had thrown off the Seleukid yoke, Cappadocia and Attalid Pergamum had achieved independence, and other territories had been lost to the Celts and to Pontus and Bythnia. When it was finally conquered by the Romans in 64 BC, the formerly mighty Seleukid empire was confined to the provinces of Syria and eastern Cilicia, and even those were under tenuous control.
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