Share a Seleucid

[filolif]

How many Seleucid collectors are here? Feel free to share your favorites in this thread - any ruler or denomination.

To start, here's a Antiochos II Theos Tetradrachm (showing a portrait of Antiochos I)

[Ryro]

Beautiful style on your tet!

Here's Seleukos I:

And Antiochos III Megas "The Great"!

Edited May 30, 2022 by Ryro
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[Alegandron]

Nice Tet @filolif! Great thread.

Seleukid Seleukos I
312-280 BCE
AR Tet 14.46g
Seleukia on Tigris. Zeus -
Athena driving a quadriga of 4 horned elephants
SC 130

[kirispupis]

Good idea for a post! Here are my two Seleukids.

(note that I have no idea why the second image is so small. When I uploaded it, it was the same res as the first)

Seleukos I Nikator Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.08 g, 8 h) Susa, circa 296/5-281. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEΥKOΥ Athena, brandishing spear overhead in her right hand and holding shield in her left, standing right in quadriga of elephants moving to right; above to right, spearhead; before elephants, monogram of MΩ. SC 177.2. Ex Leu Numismatik   Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AR Tetradrachm Seleukeia on the Tigris, 281-261 BC Diademed head to right / Apollo Delphios seated to left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting left hand on grounded bow; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ to left, monogram to outer left and right. SC 379.5a; HGC 9, 128g. 16.80g, 29mm, 3h. Acquired from Numismatik Naumann

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

The Seleucids were always my favorite of the successor kingdoms, and I have a few Tets, most of which are unphotographed.

 

31745. Silver tetradrachm, Newell SMA 97, SNG Spaer 1256 - 62 var (control-mark), VF, cracked, Antioch mint, weight 14.440g, maximum diameter 31.6mm, die axis 0o, 162 - 150 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Demetrios right, fillet border; reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ∆ΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, Tyche seated left, short scepter in right, cornucopia in left, seat supported by Nike, monogram in ex; possibly broken in two and glued together;  (Forum)

 

 

Mediocre picture by me.  A Christmas or birthday present from a few years back.

[Alegandron]

Seleukid Demetrios I Soter 162-150 BCE AE 17 serrate 16.8mm 3.9g Antioch on Orontes mint Horse Hd L - Elephant Hd R- SC 1646 SNG Spaer 1299-1304
 

[Curtisimo]

Nice coins all.  A few relevant examples.

Seleucid Empire
Antiochos VII Sidites, 138-129 BC
AR Tetradrachm, Tyre mint, struck ca. 131-130 BC (SE 182)
Wt.: 13.47 g
Dia.: 28 mm
Obv.: Antiochus VII Diademed and draped bust right
Rev.: Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; to left, monogram above club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, monogram above BΠP (date); monogram between legs
Ref.: SC 2109.10c; HGC 9, 1074; DCA 198
 

Seleukid Kingdom
Diodotos Tryphon
AE17, Antioch mint, struck ca. 142-139 BC
Dia.: 17 mm
Wt.: 4.8 g
Obv.:  Diademed head of Tryphon right
Rev.: BAΣΙΛEΩΣ TPYФΩNOΣ AYTOKPATOPOΣ to right and left of a Macedonian helmet left, adorned with ibex horn. Star in lower left field
Ref.: BMC Vol. IV 11-12; Babelon 1052; Hoover HGC 1061; Houghton SC 2034.2e
Ex Ryro Collection, Ex David@PCC

[quant.geek]

Outstanding coins! Here is one of my favorites:

Seleukid Empire: Seleukos I Nikator (312 -281 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Babylon II (Price 3349; SC C94.7d; HGC 9, 10g)

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin
Rev: AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, BAΣIΛEΩΣ in exergue; Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding eagle and scepter; anchor and monogram to left; Π below throne
Dim: 28mm, 17.19 g, 8h

 

[Curtisimo]

47 minutes ago, quant.geek said:

Outstanding coins! Here is one of my favorites:

Seleukid Empire: Seleukos I Nikator (312 -281 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Babylon II (Price 3349; SC C94.7d; HGC 9, 10g)

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin
Rev: AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, BAΣIΛEΩΣ in exergue; Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding eagle and scepter; anchor and monogram to left; Π below throne
Dim: 28mm, 17.19 g, 8h

 

Wow! Beautiful.

[ValiantKnight]

I’m more of a Ptolemaic guy but I have a few Seleucid coins. Here’s my favorite.

Antiochus VII, Seleucid Kingdom
AR tetradrachm
Obv: Diademed head right within border
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEΡΓETOY, Athena standing left, holding Nike in right hand, spear, and shield decorated with face in left hand
Mint: Antioch
Date: 138-129 BC
Ref: HGC 1067

 

[AncientNumis]

I only have a few Seleucid coins, and they are all bronze, but here's my favourite due to the bottle cap edge. It's common and not worth too much, but I still adore it. I've shown it before on this forum, and I got it from a give-away on CT a while ago...

 

 

[Troyden]

1. Rise of the empire. Tetradrachm of Antiochus I Soter, Antioch mint.

2. Twilight of the empire. Drachm of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, eastern mint in either Media or Hyrcania.

[NewStyleKing]

4 hours ago, ValiantKnight said:

I’m more of a Ptolemaic guy but I have a few Seleucid coins. Here’s my favorite.

Antiochus VII, Seleucid Kingdom
AR tetradrachm
Obv: Diademed head right within border
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEΡΓETOY, Athena standing left, holding Nike in right hand, spear, and shield decorated with face in left hand
Mint: Antioch
Date: 138-129 BC
Ref: HGC 1067

 

A lot of these coins where copies minted by Cappadocian kings to pay mercenaries with. Used to have one which turned out to a copy   SEE, !Early Cappadocian Tetradrachms in the Name of Antiochus VII Authors(s): ELKE KRENGEL and CATHARINE C. LORBER Source: The Numismatic Chronicle (1966-), Vol. 169 (2009), pp. 51-10  also, Cappadocian Tetradrachms in the Name of Antiochus VII Authors(s): CATHARINE C. LORBER, ARTHUR HOUGHTON and PETR VESELÝ Source: The Numismatic Chronicle (1966-), Vol. 166 (2006), pp. 49-97

[NewStyleKing]

Just now, NewStyleKing said:

A lot of these coins where copies minted by Cappadocian kings to pay mercenaries with. Used to have one which turned out to a copy   SEE, !Early Cappadocian Tetradrachms in the Name of Antiochus VII Authors(s): ELKE KRENGEL and CATHARINE C. LORBER Source: The Numismatic Chronicle (1966-), Vol. 169 (2009), pp. 51-10  also, Cappadocian Tetradrachms in the Name of Antiochus VII Authors(s): CATHARINE C. LORBER, ARTHUR HOUGHTON and PETR VESELÝ Source: The Numismatic Chronicle (1966-), Vol. 166 (2006), pp. 49-97

Probably available on academia. edu under Lorber

[NewStyleKing]

 

SOLD Antiochus V11 Sidetes Tetradrachm 138-129 BC SOLD

SOLD Obs - Diademed head of Antiochus V11 in fillet border 16.32g 29mm SC 2061.4e Antioch on the Orontes mint Rev- Athena holding Nike presenting wreath left , right, hand on shield proping up spear Ins- ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΕΥΕΡΙΓΕΡΟΥ surrounded by wreath Control marks Monogram composing ΔΙ below A before Athena left Right above shield, A above M An early Cappadocian copy emission 4 obs A14 (Krenkal & Lorber 2009) SOLD

[Roman Collector]

Nothing says "Seleucid" like a bottle cap with an elephant! This one is ex-Houghton:


Laodike IV, wife and sister of both Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV.
Selucia in Pieria, 175-164 BC.
AE 3.33 gm; 15 mm.
Obv: Veiled bust of Laodike IV, r.
Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, elephant head l.; prow.
Refs: Houghton, CSE 113 (plate coin); Forrer 183.

[Ed Snible]

This may be the largest Seleukid coin:

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Antiochos IV Epiphanes. 175-164 BC. 43mm, 71.83 g. “Egyptianizing” series. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck 169-168 BC.
Obv: Laureate head of Zeus-Serapis right, wearing tainia with Osiris crown at tip
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ (King Antiochos God Manifest); Eagle standing right on thunderbolt.
Refs: SC 1412; HGC 9, 642. ex-Classical Numismatic Group, e-Auction 426, August 2018, lot 221
 

The auction house described this as having "some roughness" and a "flan flaw."  The "flan flaw" looks like post-mint damage: a hole.

Edited May 31, 2022 by Ed Snible

[shanxi]

Here is a small, but IMHO very nice coin:

Seleukid Kingdom. Ake-Ptolemaïs.
Cleopatra Thea and Antiochos VIII.
Dated SE 187 (126/5 BC)

Obv.: Head of Artemis right, quiver and bow over shoulder
Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ to right, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ to left, bow and quiver, ΙΠΡ (date) below.
Æ, 15 mm, 2,97 g
Ref.: HGC 9, 1194; SC 2275.

 

[DANTE]

If I had the budget and discipline in collecting then Seleucid portraits/coins would be high on my list. As it is, I have only a few eclectic examples. 

I'm still on the lookout for my White Whale: a double shekel from Babylon with a Seleucid anchor. For me, that would be the ultimate (seminal) Seleucid coin.

Here are some of mine.

Seleukos I, appropriately from Seleukeia:

 

In the name of Seleukos I, under Antiochos I, by  Philetairos, and in the types of Alexander. Four in one, a versatile coin:

 

 

And a serrate:

 

[airhead1983]

The coin formerly known as the Shekel of Tyre. 🤪 (see:

Erin

[Pantoffel]

Seleukos IV

[DonnaML]

I have only one Seleucid coin, purchased at a Frank Robinson auction. (Not his photo!)

Syria, Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypon) Tetradrachm, 109-96 BCE Antioch Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Antiochos VIII right / Rev. Zeus Nikephoros seated left on high-backed throne, holding Nike on outstretched right hand and scepter in left; to outer left, E/P monogram above A [Antioch]; ΔI monogram below throne; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ; all within laurel wreath. Seleucid Coins [SC] Pt. 2, 2309; Seleucid Coins Online [same] (see http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309); Seaby 7145 (ill.) [Sear, David, Greek Coins & their Values, Vol. II: Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 9 (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [Newell, E.T., The Seleucid Mint of Antioch (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [Spaer, A.  &  A. Houghton, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins (London, 1998)]; BMC 4 Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI] [Gardner, P., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria (London, 1878)].  27 mm., 16.2 g.

Edited May 31, 2022 by DonnaML

[Petar_rc13]

Sharing a Seleucus I tetradrachm that im going to steal from op 😈

[Petar_rc13]

23 minutes ago, DonnaML said:

I have only one Seleucid coin, purchased at a Frank Robinson auction. (Not his photo!)

Syria, Seleucid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypon) Tetradrachm, 109-96 BCE Antioch Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Antiochos VIII right / Rev. Zeus Nikephoros seated left on high-backed throne, holding Nike on outstretched right hand and scepter in left; to outer left, E/P monogram above A [Antioch]; ΔI monogram below throne; BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ; all within laurel wreath. Seleucid Coins [SC] Pt. 2, 2309; Seleucid Coins Online [same] (see http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2309); Seaby 7145 (ill.) [Sear, David, Greek Coins & their Values, Vol. II: Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979)]; Hoover HGC 9, 1200 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Syrian Coins, Royal and Civic Issues, Fourth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 9 (2009)]; Newell SMA 405 [Newell, E.T., The Seleucid Mint of Antioch (1918)], SNG Israel 2554-55 [Spaer, A.  &  A. Houghton, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins (London, 1998)]; BMC 4 Seleucid Syria 2 (p. 98) (ill. Pl. XXVI, No. 3) [erroneously attributed to Antiochos XI] [Gardner, P., A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 4, The Seleucid Kings of Syria (London, 1878)].  27 mm., 16.2 g.

That's mint condition!!!

[filolif]

39 minutes ago, Petar_rc13 said:

Sharing a Seleucus I tetradrachm that im going to steal from op 😈

Please do! Lol ❤️