Seleukid Numismatic Information

Greek Inscriptions on Quasi-Municipal Coins

Inscriptions sorted by mint  •  Inscriptions sorted by ruler  •  References

This page covers Greek inscriptions on Seleukid quasi-municipal coins. Garbled inscriptions, magistrate names, control marks, monograms and inscriptions on non-Seleukid coins with Seleukid countermarks are not included. Non-Greek inscriptions are not included as well (there are many Phoenician inscriptions). This list is not complete. It will be completed when Seleucid Coins, Part II, by A. Houghton, C. Lorber and O. Hoover is published.
All listed inscriptions are known from bronze coins, unless explicitly said otherwise. The listed references represent just selected examples of coins bearing these inscriptions and not an exhaustive list of known series.

Inscriptions sorted by mint

Aigeai (Aegeae)

Ake-Ptolemais (Akko)

Antioch on the Kallirhoe (Edessa)

Antioch in Mygdonia (Nisibis)

Antioch on the Orontes (Antioch near Daphne)

Apamea (Apameia on the Axios)

Eupatreia (Orthosia ?)

Hierapolis (Bambyke)

Hierapolis on the Pyramos (Castabala)

Kyrrhos (Cyrrhus)

Laodikeia by the Sea (Laodikeia ad Mare)

Seleukeia in Pieria

Seleukeia on the Pyramos (Mopsos)

Sidon

Tripolis

Tyre

Inscriptions sorted by ruler

Antiochos IV

Demetrios I

Alexander I

Demetrios II, 1st reign

Antiochos VII

Demetrios II, 2nd reign

Antiochos VIII

References:

Houghton, Arthur: Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the Collection of Arthur Houghton. The American Numismatic Society, New York, 1983. (abbr. CSE)
Houghton, Arthur; Spaer, Arnold (with the assistance of Catharine Lorber): Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Israel I. The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins. Italo Vecchi Ltd., London, 1998. (abbr. SNG Spaer)
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