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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3202817, member: 96635&quot;]Interesting question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Officially it ended 63 BC when it got anexed by Rome but in my opinion the treaty of Apamea was when the Seleucid empire was not that &quot;great&quot; anymore, the end that the Seleucid empire was not on its highest anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>When Sidetes died and all the civil wars and the catastrophic events and assassination after assassination around 100 BC happened is for me the end of the Seleucid empire. If you read the stories about Gyrpos I am actually suprised how he managed to stay on the throne for almost 30 years, I don&#039;t call him a king anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine what a citizen must have thinked about this in that time, one person could have had 10 different kings in 1 life time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the summer I went to the Manchester museum and I spoke to the curator there and he decided to give me a &#039;tour behind the scenes&#039;. He showed me over 1000 coins with many Seleucid coins as well, it was very interesting to see a tetradrachm of every Seleucid ruler in your own hand. If I remember correctly the last person who visited the &#039;behind the scenes&#039; of the coins was somewhere in 1997, so I felt quite thankful about that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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