Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator, 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25mm, 16.55 g 12), Seleukeia on the Tigris, circa 295/6 and later. Laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ Athena, hurling spear with her right hand and holding shield with her left, standing right in quadriga of elephants moving to right; above and to right, anchor right and tripod. Houghton-Lorber I, 60, 130.40. A nicely toned and well centered piece. Good very fine.


Ex Hess-Divo 317, 27 October 2010, 279.

The elephant quadriga serves as a reminder of the 500 elephants Seleukos received from Chandragupta as part of the peace settlement in 303.