157: The Seleucid Civil War

Antiochus Hierax featured on a silver tetradrachm coin with the god Apollo on the reverse via Wikimedia

During the Third Syrian War, Seleucus II Callinicus discovered treachery. His younger brother, Antiochus Hierax and their royal relatives in Anatolia attempted to usurp the throne. Seleucus was forced to make a hasty peace with Ptolemy III and return to the north to face his brother in open civil war.
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