KINGDOM OF SYRIA. Seleucid Kings, Seleukos I Nikator (312-281 B.C.), Si lver Tetradrachm, 16.70g,. Mint of P ergamon, struck 281 B.C. Bridled head of horned horse (Bucephalus?) faci ng to right, its mouth open. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEYKOY , elephant walking to right, a bee above, an anchor below (Houghton & Lorber, Seleucid Coins, part I, 1 (1); Houghton, Coins of the Seleucid Empire’ 633; Newell, ‘The Pergamene Mint under Philetaerus’, NNM 76, p. 10, 1, I; Newell, Western Seleucid Mints, 1528; cf. ‘Kunstfreund’, lot 249 = NFA XVIII, 1987, lot 287; Kraay – Hirmer pl. 204, 741). A magnificent coin of almost medallic impact, broad flan, attractively toned, about extremely fine, one of the finest known examples of this extremely rare and historically significant co in. Purchased privately in 1987 This extremely rare, and very impressive, coin was only struck for a brief period of time. It is thought that the issue was a commemorative one, struck to mark the victory of Seleukos I over Lysimachos at the battle of Corupedium. The horse on the obverse of the coin is perhaps a reference to Alexander’s own mount, Bucephalus (see lot 304 for a depiction of Alexander riding Bucephalus). A huge horse and thought to be untameable, it is reported by Plutarch that Alexander won the horse when he was a thirteen-year-old boy after he subdued it, and that only he was able to ride the animal. There are contradictory accounts of the fate of Bucephalus, some stating that he died of natural causes, and others that he perished following the battle of Hydaspes in 326 B.C. An alternative interpretation of the obverse of this coin could be a commemoration of the horse that enabled Seleukos’s flight from Babylon in 316 B.C. The addition of the horns to the horse signifies that it is an heroic animal. The elephant that appears on the reverse of the coin was a symbol of Seleucid might, in use since the reconquest of India in 304-303 B.C. There are perhaps fewer than ten examples of this coin known today.
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