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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2926690, member: 82322&quot;]I should probably give the backstory for the reverse.&nbsp; Edward Newell quoted Appian (Loeb Classical Library, Horace White translation) “… when a wild bull was brought for sacrifice to Alexander and broke loose from his ropes, Seleucus held him alone, with nothing but his hands…”&nbsp; Newell thought the coin symbolizes that story.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were struck in four denominations by seven different mints.&nbsp; Not all mints struck all denominations.&nbsp; I have managed to acquire all four denominations and examples of five of the mints.&nbsp; Here is the large denomination, &quot;perhaps&quot; only struck at Seleukeia on the Tigris.[ATTACH=full]709820[/ATTACH]</p><p>Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 B.C. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint, circa 280 B.C. Æ 23, 10.92g</p><p>Obv: Winged head (of Medusa?) right</p><p>Rev: BASILEUS SELEUKOY, bull butting right; Θ above, monogram below bull.</p><p><i>SC</i> 151.2a; <i>SNG Spaer</i> 143.</p><p>Ex Agora Auctions, auction 6, March 2014, lot 33</p><p>Note: Seleucia was opposite Ctesiphon in the center of modern Iraq.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost no one identifies the mints correctly for these.&nbsp; I created a cheat sheet to help me find the rare mints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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