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Tetradrachm - Antiochos III Megas
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 203 BC - 197 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (203 BC - 197 BC) - SC1 985.1 - Mono left, mono 446.3 right, anchor between legs - ND (203 BC - 197 BC) - SC1 985.2 - Mono left, M right, anchor between legs - ND (203 BC - 197 BC) - SC1 985.3 - Mono left, ? right, anchor between leg - |
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Antiochos III earned his epithet "Megas" through a decade-long eastern campaign — the so-called Anabasis — that took him as far as Bactria, Parthia, and India between 212 and 205 BC, deliberately echoing Alexander's conquests. The tetradrachms struck in the immediately following years, including this issue, were produced at a moment of peak Seleucid ambition: he had just reclaimed much of the eastern satrapies and was turning his attention westward toward Coele-Syria and ultimately, fatally, toward Rome.
SC 1.985 places this among the later attributions refined by Houghton and Lorber, distinguishing it from the earlier SC 453a classification by mint attribution and die linkage analysis.