Issuing authority

Seleucid Empire

Kind: empire
Region: Near East, Asia

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

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4 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

303 BC – 112 BC

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Tetradrachm of Seleucus I, Greek, Seleucid, ca. 298–281 BC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

ancient coins

Tetradrachm of Seleucus I, Greek, Seleucid, ca. 298–281 BC

ca. 298–281 BC

Tetradrachm in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 2021.40.87), catalogued by the museum's Greek and Roman Art department under the title “Tetradrachm of Seleucus I”. The museum dates it ca. 298–281 BC and records its origin as Greek, Seleucid. The museum records the medium as Silver and the dimensio…

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Cleveland Museum of Art

ancient coins

Tetradrachm: Head of Antiochos V (obverse); Zeus (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.975)

164–162 BCE

Thrust into power while still a child, Antiochos V used coinage to legitimize his tenuous control. On the obverse of this coin, Antiochos appears like many Hellenistic kings, with heavy hair curls and a diadem. On the reverse, a seated Zeus holds the goddess of victory, Nike, who crowns Antiochos’s name with a wreat…

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Silver Tetradrachm of Antiochus VIII, Greek, Seleucid, ca. 121–97 BC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

ancient coins

Silver Tetradrachm of Antiochus VIII, Greek, Seleucid, ca. 121–97 BC

ca. 121–97 BC

Tetradrachm in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 2021.40.88), catalogued by the museum's Greek and Roman Art department under the title “Silver Tetradrachm of Antiochus VIII”. The museum dates it ca. 121–97 BC and records its origin as Greek, Seleucid; Hellenistic. The museum records the medium as…

Documented

Partial type record

Cleveland Museum of Art

ancient coins

Tetradrachm: Head of Antiochos VIII (obverse); Zeus Ouranios (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.974)

112–110 BCE

Like his ancestors before him, Antiochos VIII emulates the style of Alexander III (the Great) on this coin, preferring wild, curly hair, a simple diadem, and clean-shaven face. On the reverse Zeus Ouranios gives his divine approval, standing with a scepter and bright star that shines above two mint marks in a very c…

Documented

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Dated entries by century

4th century BC1
2nd century BC3

Only the 4 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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