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Drachm - Seleukos II Kallinikos Antioch on the Orontes
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 244 BC - 226 BC |
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| Weight | 3.82 g |
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| Reverse description | Apollo standing to left in the field, nude, testing the point of an arrow held in his right hand while resting his left hand upon a grounded bow at his side. The Greek legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ appears to the right of the figure and ΣEΛEYKOY to the left, identifying the issuing monarch. Control monograms appear in the outer fields. The composition follows the established Seleucid reverse type derived from Macedonian prototypes. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY |
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Seleukos II inherited a fractured empire — his reign began with the Third Syrian War against Ptolemy III, who sacked Antioch and reportedly carried off cult statues all the way to Egypt. Seleukos never fully recovered those losses, and a simultaneous revolt by his own brother Antiochos Hierax in Asia Minor split the Seleucid realm in two for much of the 240s BC. Antioch on the Orontes, as the western capital, remained under his control throughout, making it the primary mint sustaining whatever fiscal coherence the kingdom still had.