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Tetradrachm - Seleukos I Susa
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 301 BC - 295 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, advances to the right in flowing drapery, extending a wreath to crown a trophy of arms set to the right of the field — a composition celebrating military triumph. Control marks, consisting of monograms and occasionally letters or symbols, appear in the left and right fields flanking Nike, varying by die variety. The reverse legend in Greek reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ, identifying the issuing authority as King Seleukos (I Nikator). The design is characteristic of early Seleucid royal coinage struck at the Susa mint. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ (Translation: King Seleukos (I, Nikator)) |
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Susa was one of the great administrative capitals of the Achaemenid world, and when Seleukos I began striking there after Ipsos in 301 BC, he was deliberately anchoring his legitimacy in a city that carried centuries of imperial weight. The mint had been active under Alexander and under the Diadochi before him — Seleukos was not starting from nothing, he was inheriting a functioning apparatus and reorienting it westward toward his own dynastic program.
The Susa mint closed for Seleukid purposes around 295 BC, giving this issue a production window of roughly six years.