Alexander II Zabinas (Seleucid king, 128-123 BC)

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Alexander II Zabinas (Greek Ἀλέξανδρoς Zαβίνας), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, was a counter-king who emerged in the chaos following the Seleucidian loss of Mesopotamia to the Parthians. Zabinas was a false Seleucid who claimed to be an adoptive son of Antiochus VII Sidetes, but in fact seems to have been the son of an Egyptian merchant named Protarchus.

Die Studies

Item	Image	Metal	Weight
S 131 - Berytus / Laodicea in Phoenicia, bronze, Module 1 (system of 4 modules), 126-122 BC		Bronze
Ascalon (Alexander II), silver, tetradrachms (Alexander II/eagle on thunderbolt) (126-125 BCE)		Silver	1,337 kg
Damascus (Alexander II Zebinas), silver, drachms (Alexander II/double cornucopiae) (126-125 BCE)		Silver	250 kg
Damascus (Alexander II Zebinas), silver, tetradrachms (Alexander II/seated Zeus) (126-122 BCE)		Silver	4,776 kg

Overstriking coins

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Overstruck coins

Item	Overstruck type	Metal	Date	Overstriking coin
25608 - Charax Spasinou (Tiraeus I) (tetradrachm Tiraeus/Tyche) over Alexander II (Alexander/Zeus) (CNG, MBS 72, June 2006, 1008)		Silver	95 BC JL

Alexander II Zabinas

Type ᵖ	Person
Nomisma ID	alexander_ii_zabinas
Links	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alexander_II_Zabinas http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q315006 https://www.freebase.com/m/015fk7

Literature

• SC II (3 mentions)
• Iossif - Gerritsen 2021 (2 mentions)
• Sawaya 2004 (1 mentions)
• Voulgaridis 2000 (1 mentions)
• HGC 9 (1 mentions)
• CSE (1 mentions)