Antiochos I Soter Tetradrachm (281-261 BC)

Nice example, particularly the obverse, well above average for the type.  Some wear at the high points but common for the type - the portrait is still in very good shape.

Struck at the premier Seleukid eastern mint (Seleukeia on the Tigris).  Antiochos consolidated the gains of his father Seleukos and earned the moniker Soter ("Savior") for defeating the Gauls in Anatolia (later of "Letter to the Galatians" fame) and settling them peacefully in the interior.

Seleukid Empire

Antiochos I Soter AR Tetradrachm (281-261 BC)

Seleukeia on the Tigris

O: Diademed head to right

R: ΒAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY / Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind; to left, monogram of AP; to right, monogram of XA inside circle