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Offline Nemonater

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Rare Seleukos I Nikator
« on: June 04, 2013, 03:30:04 pm »
Just started my gallery of Greeks.  My first addition is an AR Seleukos I Nikator.  Quite a bit off the beaten trail for me, so if anyone has something to add I would love to hear it!

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-97551


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Re: Rare Seleukos I Nikator
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2013, 05:55:23 pm »
SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Unit (17mm, 2.79 g, 9h). Babylon I mint. Struck circa 311-300 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Club and quiver-over-bow; monogram in wreath to left, H to right. SC 84; Price 3705 (this coin referenced [Sicurella]); A. Spaer, “A New Type of Alexander the Great?” INJ 5 (1981), 1; HGC 9, 70. VF, find patina, some light cleaning marks. Extremely rare, only two published.

Previous authors have noted the denomination of this rare issue as 1/5th tetradrachm or 1/5th stater, based on the Macedonian standard used from Archelaos through Philip II. However, the weights of the two published pieces, 3.19 g and 2.79 g, do not comport well with this idea. The fact that this type is only known in the far eastern mint of Babylon also makes such a weight standard doubtful. Unfortunately, the weights of these two pieces also do not comport well with the local Babylonian standard. Until more pieces come to light, their exact standard and denomination remains unknown.

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Re: Rare Seleukos I Nikator
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2013, 11:17:09 pm »
Thanks Rover!

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Re: Rare Seleukos I Nikator
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2013, 12:31:54 am »
Another one was offered at Triton XVI, lot 300:

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"KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos
of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Fifth Tetradrachm (16mm, 3.27 g, 6h).
Babylon mint. Struck under Peithon, circa 315-311 BC. Head of
Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Club and quiver over bow;
monogram in wreath to left, monogram to right. Price 3727 var.
(monogram; same obv. die as illustration); SNG Saroglos –. Good
VF, toned, very light porosity. Extremely rare, possibly the second
known.
"

With this additional note:
"The other known example, published in Price, is in the BM. The
reverse dies of these two are remarkably similar, and thus likely
from the same engraver. Interestingly, this lot includes an
inventory ticket from F. Kovacs, marked “8/1987” on the back,
which was a year after the BM acquired their example. It is
therefore likely that these two coins were found together.
"

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Re: Rare Seleukos I Nikator
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2013, 08:18:25 pm »
Hi Walter,
The example you posted is attributed to Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos
of Asia, 320-306/5 BC.  Is it somehow different than those attributed to Seleukos 311-300?

Edit: I didn't mean Walter has to answer this, does anyone have a thought about the attribution?

 

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