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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 3236043, member: 87080&quot;]That is a great question [USER=81093]@AussieCollector[/USER]&nbsp; I only focus on Seleucid coins through Antiochos VIII Grypos, roughly 311-96 BC, so I can&#039;t speak on the coins minted during the last gasps of the empire. The Seleucid kings originally minted at the stated Attic standard of 27.28 grams per tetradrachm.&nbsp; Like most of the Diadochi, that was never the reality, and their tets ranged from the Attic standard down to 17.0 grams.&nbsp; Fast forward 200 years, and the coinage grew much lighter.&nbsp; By Antiochos VIII tets are regularly in the 16.6 to 16.3 gram range, and it isn&#039;t uncommon to see them below 16 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>The general rule is that as the Seleucid empire gets older the teradrachms grow lighter.&nbsp; By the time of Antiochos III the Great the weight of a tetradrachm is regularly below 17 grams, in the area of 16.9-16.8 grams.&nbsp; A hundred years later the tets of Antiochos VIII are commonly around 16.3 grams or lower (and night).</p><p><br /></p><p>If nothing else, I would recommend going to CNG or ACsearch and looking up coins by ruler and mint to compare to any you are interested in.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a fool-proof method, but with hundreds of examples of common Seleucid tets it can give you a good idea of what to expect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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