SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. Second satrapy and kingship, 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.00 g, 7h). Susa mint. Struck circa 300-295 BC. Head of hero (Alexander or Seleukos?) right, wearing helmet covered with panther skin and adorned with the ear and horns of a bull / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Nike standing right, holding in both hands a wreath that she places on trophy to right; M to lower left, AX in lower middle field. SC 173.14; ESMS Tr.92–105 var. (unlisted dies); Marest-Caffey Group 1.10; ESM 420; HGC 9, 20; CSE 1025. Lightly toned. Near EF. Attractive style. Well centered and struck on a broad flan.
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