Silver Tetradrachm of Seleucus I Nicator, Ecbatana, 293 BC - 280 BC. 1944.100.73476

Weight (in gr.): 16.2
Diameter (in mm): 24

Canonical URI: http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.73476

Obverse: Beardless head of Heracles r. wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse: ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ - Zeus seated on stool-throne l., holding eagle on outstretched right hand and sceptre in left

Object Type: Coin
Date Range: 293 BC - 280 BC
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Manufacture: Struck
Material: Silver
Authority
- Authority: Seleucus I Nicator
- - Dynasty: Seleucid Dynasty
  - State: Seleucid Empire
Geographic
- Mint: Ecbatana
- Region: Media
Obverse
- Deity: Heracles
Reverse
- Deity: Zeus

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Sections: 51, 51
Creator: Newell, Edward Theodore, 1886-1941
Abstract: Notebook containing notes on coins of various hoards, along with loose leaves with additional coin lists, notes, and rubbings. A detached label once adhered to the cover of the album reads, "HOARDS II." Includes a letter to Margaret Thompson from Martin Price of the British Museum relating to a joint project on the coins of Alexander the Great (1968). Hoards covered in the notebook are Sardis, Anadol, Aleppo, Ankyra, Aintab, Andhritsena, Abu Hommos, Taranto, Bithynian, Demanhur, Chalcis (Eretria), Calabria, Constantinople, Cyprus (Larnaka), Peloponessos, Drama, Greece (Tiffany), Eretria, Epidaurus, Sparta, Patras, Gesou, Haiffa, Prof. Haynes, Saida, Jandolo, Anadol, Kuft, Kyparissia, Keleler, Karditsa, Messene, Larnaka, Lamia, Latakie, Mosul, Marasesti, Patras, Parthian, Philip II Staters, Ravel, Salonica, Sophikon, Taranto, Tripolitsa, Thebes, Urfa, Gejou, Lamia, and Kyparissia.