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Tetrachalkon - Seleukeia Pieria
| Issuer | Seleucia Pieria (Syria) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 89 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing right, rendered in Hellenistic style with finely detailed curling hair and beard. The laureate wreath is clearly visible crowning the deity's head. The portrait is boldly modeled in high relief, consistent with late Seleucid civic bronze coinage. A dotted border frames the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΓΚΣ |
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Seleukeia Pieria occupied a peculiar political position in the late second and early first centuries BC — nominally under Seleucid authority but increasingly autonomous as the dynasty collapsed under dynastic civil war and Tigranes of Armenia's encroaching power. By 83 BC the city would fall entirely under Tigranes, but in the narrow window of 90–89 BC it was still issuing civic bronze under its own name, a sign of the administrative vacuum the warring Seleucid pretenders had left behind.