Tetradrachm - Seleukos I Nikator Alexander III Type

Seleukos I struck these tetradrachms in the Alexander type during the years immediately following the Wars of the Diadochi, a deliberate political choice: by issuing coinage indistinguishable in type from Alexander's own issues, he legitimized his authority in the eastern satrapies without provoking the suspicion that a new dynastic identity might have invited. The window closes in 305 BC when Seleukos took the royal title and began transitioning to explicitly Seleucid types.

Price 3746 is attributed to a Syrian mint, most likely Seleukeia-on-the-Tigris or an early Antioch issue, though attribution for this transitional series remains contested among specialists.