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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 5409691, member: 82322&quot;][USER=81896]@Deacon Ray[/USER] thanks for the new picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect you have a Medusa bronze from the eastern mint of Seleucia on the Tigris.&nbsp; They come in three denominations at that mint.&nbsp; The largest denomination of the Seleukid &quot;Medusa bronze&quot; was only issued at this mint.&nbsp; Here is an example of the larger one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234270[/ATTACH]</p><p>Seleukos I Nikator. Seleukeia on the Tigris, ca. 280 BC, 22.9 mm, 10.92 g</p><p><i>SC</i> 151; <i>SNG Spaer</i> 143. VF, scarce.</p><p>ex-Agora Auctions, <a href="http://agoraauctions.com/listing/viewdetail/2568/archive" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://agoraauctions.com/listing/viewdetail/2568/archive" rel="nofollow">Lot 6-033</a></p><p>Seleucia on the Tigris was opposite Ctesiphon in the center of modern Iraq.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mintmark of this mint is a sort of XAX monogram.&nbsp; Yours seems to have the right side of that.&nbsp; Check how it was cleaned, the left X might be hiding.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most dealers can&#039;t recognize the mints for these and thus they rarely command a premium.&nbsp; You can learn to recognize the XAX mintmark, the obverse style with a more circular profile, or the concave reverse to identify them.&nbsp; Yours has an uncertainty in the lettering which I have seen in photos of the small denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far I have been able to collect the medium and large denominations from this mint.&nbsp; You may have the small.&nbsp; Maybe I am just being hopeful.&nbsp; If you have a small Seleucia-o-t-Tigris Medusa bronze, congrats to you, I have not been able to acquire one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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