Description

The Seleucid Empire.

Antiochus I Soter ('Savior') 294-261 B.C.

Seleucia on the Tigri. The Tigris river in Iraq, 20 kilometres south of modern day Baghdad, is the site of Seleucia-on-the-Trigris. Its inception was part of the Hellenistic colonialization of the Middle East, the result pf Alexander the Great's campaigns.

AR Tetradrachm circa 265-264 B.C.

Silver, 28.00mm, 17.02g.

Obverse: Diademed head of Antiochus I right. 

Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ

Reverse: Apollo seated left, on Om-halos, holding harrow and resting left, hand on grounded bow; in each side two monograms.

Reference: SC 379.3c.

Grade: VF.