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SYRIA, SELEUKID KINGS. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-280 B.C. AR drachm. 4.16 gm. 16 mm. Attic standard. Type of Alexander with name of Seleukos. Seleukia in Pieria. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion scalp; dotted border / Zeus Nicephorus enthroned left holding Nike with outstretched right hand and a long scepter with his left hand; ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ behind; KP beneath throne; monogram in field lower left. Newell, WSM. 891 (same dies); plate XV:13. Houghton-Lorber 31. Good Very Fine; deep cabinet toning with hints of iridescence; fresh surfaces; well centered portrait of excellent style. Very rare.The coinage of the Seleukid kings begins with the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Alexander rewarded Seleukos I with rule over Babylon. Though the coins were based on the Attic weight standard that Alexander used, the art was Hellenistic realism.