SELEUCID KINGDOM. Seleucus I Nicator (312-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 16.95 gm, 11h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5. Lifetime issue in the types of Alexander III of Uncertain Mint 3, in Cappadocia, eastern Syria or northern Mesopotamia, probably after ca. 300 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck; dotted border / ΣEΛEYKOY-BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus enthroned left, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, Nike right in right hand, scepter in left; ΔI in left field, ΣΩ below strut. SC 59.2.

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