Friday, October 16, 2009

Greece/Seleucid; Antiochus I Soter BCE 280-261, in the name of Seleucus I



AR Tetradrachm, 28 mm, 16.73 g, Laodicea ad mare mint


SC 357.8 (this coin)


O: hd of young Herakles r. in lion skin headdress, dotted border. (weak obs. Strike)


R: ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ on r., BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ in ex. Zeus enthroned l., holding eagle and scepter, dotted border. Mintmark on left above, Dolphin l., controls on left below and beneath throne.