Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukeia on the Tigris I mint. Seleukos I Nikator 312-281 BC. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck circa 300-281 BC
Tetradrachm AR
27 mm., 17,09 g.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ, Zeus seated left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long scepter in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings, monogram in wreath in left field, K beneath throne.
good very fine
SC 117.2b; HGC 9, 12i.