KINGDOM OF THE SELEUCIDS - Lot 29

KINGDOM OF THE SELEUCIDS SELEUCUS I NICATOR 312 - 281 Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin. R/. Zeus aëtophore seated on a throne, holding an eagle and a long scepter. In front, helmeted head of Athena and under the seat, crescent. In the field, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕYKOΥ. ♦ Newell (Pergamon) p.18, 5.11; Sear 308b Silver tetradrachm of the Alexander the Great type struck under Philétaire* in 281 B.C. (16.84 g) Rare. Superb. *Philometorus was born around 343 BC and died in 263 BC. He was governor of the city of Pergamon and founder of the Hellenistic Attalid dynasty, named after his father, Attalus. Governor of Antigonus the One-Eyed, then of Lysimachus, he imposed Pergamon's independence and laid the foundations of the Attalid dynasty by practicing evergetism.