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<p>[QUOTE="Shea19, post: 3652656, member: 90981"]Great coins and write-up, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] . I don’t have any Seleucid coins from that time, but I can add a small footnote to the story of Demetrius II (and his ridiculous inbreeding).</p><p><br /></p><p>This is Ariarathes V, the King of Cappadocia from 163-130 BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]981457[/ATTACH]</p><p>KINGS OF CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator, 163-130 BC. (AR Drachm, 17 mm, 3.99g), Eusebeia-Mazaca, circa 131 B.C. Diademed head of Ariarathes to right. Rev. BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ APIAPAΘOY EYΣEBOYΣ, Athena standing left, holding Nike, spear and shield set on ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Around 160 BC, Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter tried to arrange to have his sister, Laodice, marry Ariarathes V. Ariarathes declined, which did not go over well, and helped start a war in Cappadocia. Demetrius I supported the rebel, but Ariarathes V ultimately prevailed, and ruled in Cappadocia for another 30 years. There is some disagreement about what happened next, but many sources tell it like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>After his sister Laodice was rejected by Ariarathes, Demetrius I did the most logical thing any Seleucid king could do...he married his own sister Laodice himself. He and his sister then had two sons together, Demetrius II and Antiochus VII, the two rivals of our hero Tryphon. That is some serious inbreeding, and it means that Demetrius I would have been the father AND uncle of Demetrius II.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shea19, post: 3652656, member: 90981"]Great coins and write-up, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] . I don’t have any Seleucid coins from that time, but I can add a small footnote to the story of Demetrius II (and his ridiculous inbreeding). This is Ariarathes V, the King of Cappadocia from 163-130 BC. [ATTACH=full]981457[/ATTACH] KINGS OF CAPPADOCIA. Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator, 163-130 BC. (AR Drachm, 17 mm, 3.99g), Eusebeia-Mazaca, circa 131 B.C. Diademed head of Ariarathes to right. Rev. BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ APIAPAΘOY EYΣEBOYΣ, Athena standing left, holding Nike, spear and shield set on ground. Around 160 BC, Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter tried to arrange to have his sister, Laodice, marry Ariarathes V. Ariarathes declined, which did not go over well, and helped start a war in Cappadocia. Demetrius I supported the rebel, but Ariarathes V ultimately prevailed, and ruled in Cappadocia for another 30 years. There is some disagreement about what happened next, but many sources tell it like this. After his sister Laodice was rejected by Ariarathes, Demetrius I did the most logical thing any Seleucid king could do...he married his own sister Laodice himself. He and his sister then had two sons together, Demetrius II and Antiochus VII, the two rivals of our hero Tryphon. That is some serious inbreeding, and it means that Demetrius I would have been the father AND uncle of Demetrius II.[/QUOTE]
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