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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 4575940, member: 73473&quot;]Nice coins, all! </p><p><br /></p><p>Most Seleucid Tetradrachms were used in very large payments or for military purchases/salaries. As the Seleucids had an open currency system it wouldn’t be unusual to see some of their Tetradrachms appear in other parts of the Hellenistic world. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132906[/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.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132907[/ATTACH]</p><p>Material: Silver</p><p>Weight: 16.85 g</p><p>Syria, Antiochus II; 261-246 BC, Perhaps Tralles, Tetradrachm, 16.85g. SC-534.2. Obv: Diademed head of Antiochus II r. Rx: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ Apollo, slight drapery on r. thigh, seated l. on omphalos, testing arrow and resting l. hand on bow; control marks in outer l. and r. fields. Obverse somewhat high relief. aVF / Fine</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A good example of these coins high value is that in Babylon/Seleucia one of these tets would get you 120 liters of dates or 180 liters of barley![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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