SELEUKOS I Nikator AR Tetradrachm (312-281 BC). Portrait!

Seleukid Kings. SELEUKOS I Nikator AR Tetradrachm (312-281 BC). What a portrait !

in the types of Alexander III of Macedon, uncertain mint I in Cappadocia, eastern Syria, or northern Mesopotamia, circa 300-281.

Obverse : Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion’s skin headdress.

Reverse : BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY Zeus seated to left on low throne, holding an eagle in his extended right hand and long scepter in his left; below throne, ΔΙ monogram; ΛY monogram in the left field.

uncertain mint in Cappadocia

17.12 g.