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Tetradrachm - Seleukos I Nikator
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire (Seleucid Empire (305 BC - 64 BC)) |
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| Year | 296 BC - 281 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SC 1.156-7 |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ (Translation: King Seleukos) |
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Seleukos I was the only one of Alexander's successors who could claim to have personally defeated another Diadoch in open battle and survived long enough to mint coins about it — his defeat of Lysimachos at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC effectively ended the Wars of the Diadochi. He was assassinated by Ptolemy Keraunos within months of that victory, making the latest issues in this series some of the last struck under his authority before the dynasty passed to Antiochos I.
SC 1.156-7 places these within the Seleukeia-on-the-Tigris mint sequence, a city Seleukos founded specifically to anchor Macedonian administrative control over Mesopotamia.