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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 3180147, member: 87080&quot;]I love the look of the these late Alexander tets. The large flans are quite impressive.&nbsp; I&#039;ll contribute an earlier one.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antiochos-i-pergamon-jpg.784964/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm circa 280 B.C. Pergamon mint. Struck under Philetairos, in the name of Seleukos I, types of Alexander III of Macedon. </p><p>29.5mm, 17.12 g. </p><p>Obv. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. </p><p>Rev: Zeus Aëtophorus seated left; in left field, helmeted head of Athena right; crescent below throne. </p><p>SC 308b; HGC 9, 125a. </p><p><br /></p><p>What makes this tetradrachm so interesting to me is that it was struck in the city of Pergamon by Philetairos, founder of the Attalid dynasty, with the image of Alexander on the obverse and the name of Seleukos I Nikator, the founder of the Seleucid Empire, on the reverse shortly after his assassination by a son of Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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