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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 26014609, member: 87809&quot;]Thank you so much [USER=32214]@danielus[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you are right, it was struck under Seleukos I Nikator.</p><p><br /></p><p>Denomination C</p><p>Rev.: (B)AΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥ(ΚΟΥ) Indian bull butting to r. In exergue&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1654146[/ATTACH] or ΣI</p><p><br /></p><p>“There is a well-known story that Seleukos, alone and unarmed, stopped a furious bull which escaped from the altar as Alexander was sacrificing. We may see in the coin an allusion to this story, or we may prefer, regarding rather the Indian type of the bull, to see a reference to the Indian victories of the King.” ; BMC (Greek, Seleucid Kings of Syria, Seleucos I Nicator, p. xxi)</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint, according to numismatic.org, is Antiochia ad Orontem, 286 - 281 BC</p><p><a href="https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.22.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.22.1" rel="nofollow">https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.22.1</a></p><p>SC (part 1) 22.1; WSM 927; BMC (Greek, Seleucid Kings of Syria, Seleucos I Nicator, p. 6) 62-63 ([ATTACH]1654146[/ATTACH] ) or 65 (ΣI). The BMC doesn&#039;t specify the mint (or I can&#039;t find it).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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