Seleucid Empire, Alexander II Zabinas, AE Unit, Dionysus (God of Wine)

• Origin: Seleucid Empire
• Authority: Alexander II Zabinas
• Date: 129 - 128 BCE
• Denomination: AE (bronze) unit
• Mint: Antioch, Syria, Seleucis and Pieria
• Size: 19.5mm, 7.2g
• Type Number: Seleucid Coins (part 2) 2229
• Obverse: Diademed head of Alexander II right
• Reverse: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛEXANΔPOY - Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus
• Notes: Dionysus was the Greek god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.
  
  The Seleucid Empire was established by Seleucus I Nicator, a general of Alexander the Great, following the division of Alexander’s empire in 312 BCE. Centered in the Near East, it was a major Hellenistic state that blended Greek cultural and administrative practices with those of the diverse peoples it governed, spreading Hellenistic culture across a vast region from Anatolia to Central Asia.

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