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Tetradrachm - Seleukos II Kallinikos Antioch on the Orontes
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 244 BC - 226 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Diademed head of Seleukos II Kallinikos facing right, depicted as a youthful male effigy in the Hellenistic portrait tradition, with wavy hair swept back from the brow and secured by a royal diadem whose ends trail behind the neck. The facial features are rendered in strong profile with finely modeled brow, aquiline nose, and slightly parted lips characteristic of the accomplished die-cutters of the Antioch mint. A linear border or dotted border encircles the coin field. |
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| Mint | Antioch on the Orontes |
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Seleukos II inherited a fractured empire — his reign opened with the Third Syrian War against Ptolemy III, who sacked Antioch itself around 246 BC and briefly occupied much of the Seleucid heartland. The mint at Antioch resumed output once Seleukos stabilized the region, but a simultaneous revolt by his own brother Antiochos Hierax in Asia Minor kept the kingdom in near-continuous conflict for most of the 240s.
The epithet Kallinikos — "beautifully victorious" — was applied despite a reign defined more by territorial loss than triumph. He died in a fall from a horse.