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Sale 109
Lot 2046
Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukos I Nikator. Silver Tetradrachm (17.38 g), 312-281 BC. Susa, ca. 303/2 BC. Head of hero right (assimilating Seleukos I, Alexander the Great and Dionysos), wearing helmet covered with panther's skin and adorned with bull's horns and ears. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; below each wing, monogram. SC 173.4; Kritt Tr.19 (A16/P11); ESM 426; HGC 9, 20. Bold portrait struck on a full flan. Choice Very Fine. Estimate Value $3,000 - 3,500
Ex CNG 103 (14 September 2016), 353; NAC 88 (8 October 2015), 601 (hammer of $4118); New York Sale XXXIV (6 January 2015), 174.
Although Seleukos's trophy coinage from Susa was inaugurated ca. 305 BC, Kritt in The Early Seleucid Mint of Susa shows that this particular variety, ESM 426, along with ESM 424, was struck on a massive scale ca. 303/2 BC to finance Seleukos' western campaign against Antigonos Monopthalmos and to provide defense of his eastern flank in Persis. The reverse commemorates Seleukos' victories in the Upper Satrapies and his subsequent assumption of the royal title ca. 305/4 BC.
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