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Item Description:
Includes glass top leatherette display box.
- Origin: Seleucid Empire
- Authority: King Seleucus I
- Date: 300 - 295 BCE
- Denomination: AE (bronze) unit, name of denomination unknown
- Mint: Seleuceia Ad Tigrim
- Size: 18.5mm, 5.95g
- Type Number: Seleucid Coins (part 1) 126
- Obverse: Head of Athena right, in crested Attic helmet
- Reverse: ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ - Bull right, about to charge, head lowered, facing
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Notes: Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, and crafts, and the patron goddess of the city of Athens.
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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