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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GB80108
Seleukid Kingdom, Seleukos I Nikator, 312 - 280 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Seleukos| |I| |Nikator,| |312| |-| |280| |B.C.|, The Indian humped bull type, along with his well-known anchor symbol, were used only by Nikator. The Indian humped bull on the reverse recalls when Nikator, with only his bare-hands, stopped a similar bull that had broken free while Alexander the Great was sacrificing it at the altar.
GB80108. Bronze AE 18, cf. Houghton-Lorber I 6; SNG Spaer 21 ff.; BMC Seleucid p. 6, 62 ff.; SGCV II 6852 (various control-marks), Choice F, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 4.228g, maximum diameter 18.3mm, die axis 90o, late 280's B.C.; obverse winged head of Medusa right, snakes in hair; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ΣEΛEYKOY, Indian humped bull butting to right, uncertain control marks above and between hind legs; SOLD











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