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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4201966, member: 87809&quot;]All these exemplars are just eye popping <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />- all of them impressive real beauties. It is delightful to see them <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://@Andres2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://@Andres2" rel="nofollow">@Andres2</a> I have one very similar to your second Seleukos; the chair on mine is not the exact same and I attributed it as SC 117c. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I was attributing it I found here: <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-103527" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-103527" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-103527</a></p><p><br /></p><p>that Newell has this coin in Series 1, Group A. He suggests a date of 305 - 304 BC. Price suggests a date of ca. 295 BC for the coin, but admits the whole attribution is very tentative.</p><p>I don&#039;t know if by &quot;the whole attribution&quot; he means the date or what. Do you have more information about what he means by tentative?</p><p><br /></p><p>I use Newell&#039;s date for mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Tetradrachm, Seleukeia on the Tigris, 305 - 304 BC</p><p>26 x 27 mm, 16.816 g</p><p>Ref.: Houghton-Lorber I, 52, 116; Price (Alexander) 3784; SC 117c; Newell, ESM 12, 4; BMC 4.1, 5; Houghton 941; HGC 9, 12i</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Alexander the Great as Herakles facing r., wearing the Nemean lion skin headdress, horns curling around his ears.</p><p>Rev.: Zeus Aëtophoros seated on throne to the left, holding eagle in outstretched right hand and scepter in left, a symbol of his authority. To left ΣΕΛΕΙKΟΥ, ΔI monogram beneath throne. In ex. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1077644[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1077645[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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