Tryphon Imperator.Ex nummo Argenteo penes Math. Duane Armig.
F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp.
London, Publish'd Decr. 1. 1788, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Etching with stipple, printed in brown ink; published state, with very large margins. 215 x 155mm, 8½ x 6". A fine impression.
A coin bearing the head in profile of Diodotus Tryphon, a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom; a measure immediately below. As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus, the infant son of Alexander Balas, in Antioch after Alexander's death - but then in 142 BC deposed the child and himself seized power.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18241] £260.00
London, Publish'd Decr. 1. 1788, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Etching with stipple, printed in brown ink; published state, with very large margins. 215 x 155mm, 8½ x 6". A fine impression.
A coin bearing the head in profile of Diodotus Tryphon, a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom; a measure immediately below. As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus, the infant son of Alexander Balas, in Antioch after Alexander's death - but then in 142 BC deposed the child and himself seized power.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18241] £260.00