Tetradrachm - Seleukos I Nikator Seleukeia in Pieria

Seleukos I founded Seleukeia in Pieria around 300 BC as one of four cities he named after himself or his father, deliberately positioning it as the dynastic port anchoring his western territories near the mouth of the Orontes. Coinage struck there during his final two decades carries particular historical weight: Seleukos was assassinated by Ptolemy Keraunos in 281 BC, just months after crossing into Macedonia, making issues from this terminal period the last products of a reign that had stretched from the Aegean to the borders of India.

The SC1 references place this type within Houghton and Lorber's foundational die study, which identified Seleukeia in Pieria as one of the most active western mints of the early Seleucid system.