Title: Ancient Silver Head Seleukid King & Apollo Seated Tetradrachm Coin
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Period: Antiquity
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Origin: Southern Europe > Greece
Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 242-227 BC
Item ID: 5989
SELEUKID KINGS, ANTIOCHOS HIERAX. Circa 242-227 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.27 g, 12h). Alexandria Troas mint. Head right, wearing winged diadem / Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow, resting hand on bow; monograms to outer left and right; in exergue, horse grazing right. SC 877 var. (unlisted control on right); HGC 9, 399g. VF, nicely toned. An excellent style portrait. The Seleucid Empire /sə'lusɪd/ (312 - 63 BC) was a Hellenistic empire, i.e. a successor state of Alexander the Great's empire. The Seleucid Empire was centered in the near East and at the height of its power included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan and Pamir. *All of the art is edited and chosen by us for its high quality and workmanship before posting. We are committed to enhancing our customer’s lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We Are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers, Consultants & Publishers Of Spectacular Art Stories. Our job is to be intermediaries between buyers and sellers. We are vetting for high end art patrons. We are determined to catalog the world's most exceptional art and share it with everyone.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetradrachm
The tetradrachm (Greek) was an Ancient Greek silver coin equivalent to four drachmae. It was in wide circulation from 510 to 38 BC.
Many surviving tetradrachms were minted by the polis of Athens from around the middle of the 5th century BC onwards; the popular coin was widely used in transactions throughout the ancient Grecian world, including in cities politically unfriendly to Athens. Athens had silver mines in state ownership, which provided the bullion.
