ACHAIOS 220BC Seleucid King Apollo Tripod Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i47153
ACHAIOS 220BC Seleucid King Apollo Tripod Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i47153
ACHAIOS 220BC Seleucid King Apollo Tripod Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i47153

ACHAIOS 220BC Seleucid King Apollo Tripod Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i47153

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Authentic Ancient
Greek Coin of:

Rebel Satrap in Asia Minor
of the

Seleukid Kindom

Achaios – King: 220-214 B.C.
Bronze 13mm (1.62 grams) Sardeis mint, circa 220-214 B.C.
Reference: HGC 9, 438 (R2-3)

Laureate head of
Apollo
right.
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑXAIOY either side of
tripod
.

Uncle of Antiochos III, Achaios was appointed commander-in-chief in Asia Minor.
He restored Seleukid authority in the area but then rebelled against his young
nephew and proclaimed himself king. In 216 B.C. Antiochos moved against the
rebel, many of whose troops then deserted him. After a two-year siege of his
capital city of Sardeis, in Lydia, Achaios was captured and beheaded.

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 Seleucid
Empire
Σελεύκεια
Seleúkeia
 
 		 312 BC–63 BC ↓

The Seleucid Empire in 301 BC.

The Seleucid Empire
  was a
Hellenistic
state ruled by the Seleucid dynasty
founded by
Seleucus I Nicator
following the division of
the empire created by
Alexander the Great
. Seleucus received
Babylonia
and, from there, expanded his
dominions to include much of Alexander’s
near eastern
territories. At the height of its
power, it included central
Anatolia
, the
Levant
,
Mesopotamia
,
Kuwait
,
Persia
,
Afghanistan
,
Turkmenistan
, and northwest parts of
India
.

The Seleucid Empire was a major center of
Hellenistic
culture that maintained the
preeminence of
Greek
customs where a Greek-Macedonian
political elite dominated, mostly in the urban areas. The Greek population of
the cities who formed the dominant elite were reinforced by emigration from
Greece
. Seleucid expansion into
Anatolia
and Greece was abruptly halted after
decisive defeats
at the hands of the
Roman army
. Their attempts to defeat their old
enemy
Ptolemaic Egypt
were frustrated by Roman
demands. Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the
Parthians
under
Mithridates I of Parthia
in the mid-2nd century
BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a
rump state
from
Syria
until the invasion by
Armenian
king
Tigranes the Great
and their ultimate overthrow
by the Roman
general
Pompey
.

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