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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 3803125, member: 73473&quot;]After recently diving into Seleucid coins, and getting a tetradrachm of Antiochus II Theos, I decided to get one of his father, Antiochus I Soter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antiochus I was son of the Seleucus I, one of the successor generals of Alexander The Great. Interestingly enough he was half Sogdian( an Iranian ethnic group found in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) by way of his mother Apema who&nbsp; was married to Seleucus by Alexander in 324 CE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antiochus I was born in late 324 or early 323, which would make him the only member of the 2nd generation of Diadochi who was alive when Alexander was.</p><p>Antiochus’s life is too detailed to go into in depth, and this YouTuber can explain it better than I ever could.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MkVBiSDQ8cI[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing that is interesting though, is that Antiochus I was the last King to be proclaimed “King of the Universe”, by the Babylonian priest class. Toward the end of his reign Babylon would be sidelined by a newer city further up north; Seleucia on the Tigris.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m pretty new to these coins so I have no idea how the dealer was able to differentiate this coin from ones of Antiochus’s II, as they look identical to me.</p><p>Anyhow</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1015127[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antiochus I Soter Tetradrachm</p><p>SC 379.3c; HGC 9</p><p>16.73 g</p><p><br /></p><p>Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.</p><p>Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow, seated left on omphalos; monograms to outer left and right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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