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).

All listed inscriptions are known from bronze coins, unless explicitly said otherwise. The listed references represent just selected examples (the legibility of plated specimens was the main criterion) and not an exhaustive list of all known issues bearing these inscriptions.

Inscriptions sorted by mint

Aigeai (Aegeae)

• ΑΙΓΕΑΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1059

Ake-Ptolemais (Akko)

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1156

Alexandria by Issus (Alexandretta)

• ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1392

Antioch on the Kallirhoe (Edessa)

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΡΟΗΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer 1190

Antioch in Mygdonia (Nisibis)

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΜΥΓΔΟΝΙΑΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1194; Petr Vesely’s collection, A04-AE-04

Antioch on the Orontes (Antioch near Daphne)

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 176

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΔΑΦΝΗΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 130; SNG Spaer, 1008

Antioch on the Sarus (Adana)

• ΑΔΑΝΕΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1380

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΣΑΡΩΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1379

Apameia on the Axios

• ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1489

• ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΑΞΙΩΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1049

Eupatreia (Orthosia ?)

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΕΥΠΑΤΡΕΩΝ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 566; SNG Spaer, 1499

Hierapolis (Bambyke)

• ΙΕΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 448 (erroneously stated as ΗΙΕΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ); SNG Spaer, 1055

Hierapolis on the Pyramos (Castabala)

• ΙΕΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠΥΡΑΜΩΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1067

Kyrrhos (Cyrrhus)

• ΚΥΡΡΗΣΤΩΝ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 449; SNG Spaer, 1496

Laodikeia by the Sea (Laodikeia ad Mare)

• ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV, Alexander I
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 446 (Antiochos IV); SNG Spaer, 1054 (Antiochos IV), 1495 (Alexander I)

Seleukeia in Pieria

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 410; SNG Spaer, 1484

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV, Alexander I
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1045 (Antiochos IV); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1799 (Alexander I); Petr Vesely’s collection, AX1-AE-01 (Alexander I)

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ

  Ruler:	Antiochos VII
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2074

Seleukeia on the Pyramos (Mopsos)

• ΜΟΨΕΑΤΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1385

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠΥ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1386

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠΥΡΑΜΩΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1060

Sidon

• ΒΑ ΑΛ ΣΙ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1834

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Alexander I
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1526

• ΒΑ ΑΝ ΣΙ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1457

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV, Antiochos VII
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 711 (Antiochos IV); SNG Spaer, 2000 (Antiochos VII)

• ΒΑ ΔΗ ΣΙ

  Ruler:	Demetrios I
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1670

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Demetrios I, Demetrios II (1st reign)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1312 (Demetrios I); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1957 (Demetrios II, 1st reign)

• ΣΙΔΩ ΘΕΑΣ

  Ruler:	Antiochos VII, Demetrios II (2nd reign), Antiochos VIII, Antiochos IX
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2106 (Antiochos VII); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2190 (Demetrios II, 2nd reign); SNG Spaer, 2579 (Antiochos VIII); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2387 (Antiochos IX)

• ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1456; Petr Vesely’s collection, A04-AE-09
  Note:	ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ on the obverse and ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ on the reverse.

• ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ

  Ruler:	Demetrios II (2nd reign), Antiochos VII
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 2209 (Demetrios II, 2nd reign); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2105 (Antiochos VII)

Tripolis

• ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV, Antiochos V, Demetrios II (1st reign)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1068 (Antiochos IV); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1577 (Antiochos V); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1951 (Demetrios II, 1st reign)

Tyre

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos VII
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 2037

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Antiochos IV
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 732; SNG Spaer, 1092

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Ruler:	Demetrios I, Demetrios II (1st reign), Demetrios II (2nd reign)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1327 (Demetrios I), 1688 (Demetrios II, 1st reign); Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2198 (Demetrios II, 2nd reign)

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ

  Ruler:	Demetrios II (1st reign)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1729
  Note:	A special issue of AR tetradrachms related to Demetrios II’s grant of asylia to the city of Tyre. All these tetradrachms are dated SE 172 (141/0 BC).

Inscriptions sorted by ruler

Alexander I

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ

  Mint:	Antioch on the Orontes (Antioch near Daphne)
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 176

• ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ

  Mint:	Apameia on the Axios
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1489

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΕΥΠΑΤΡΕΩΝ

  Mint:	Eupatreia (Orthosia ?)
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 566; SNG Spaer, 1499

• ΒΑ ΑΛ ΣΙ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1834

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1526

• ΚΥΡΡΗΣΤΩΝ

  Mint:	Kyrrhos (Cyrrhus)
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 449; SNG Spaer, 1496

• ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΙ

  Mint:	Laodikeia by the Sea (Laodikeia ad Mare)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1495

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ

  Mint:	Seleukeia in Pieria
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 410; SNG Spaer, 1484

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ

  Mint:	Seleukeia in Pieria
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1799 (Alexander I); Petr Vesely’s collection, AX1-AE-01

Antiochos IV

• ΑΔΑΝΕΩΝ

  Mint:	Antioch on the Sarus (Adana)
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1380

• ΑΙΓΕΑΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Aigeai (Aegeae)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1059

• ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΝ

  Mint:	Alexandria by Issus (Alexandretta)
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1392

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΜΥΓΔΟΝΙΑΙ

  Mint:	Antioch in Mygdonia (Nisibis)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1194; Petr Vesely’s collection, A04-AE-04

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΙ

  Mint:	Ake-Ptolemais (Akko)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1156

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΡΟΗΙ

  Mint:	Antioch on the Kallirhoe (Edessa)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer 1190

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΔΑΦΝΗΙ

  Mint:	Antioch on the Orontes (Antioch near Daphne)
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 130; SNG Spaer, 1008

• ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΑΞΙΩΙ

  Mint:	Apameia on the Axios
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1049

• ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΣΑΡΩΙ

  Mint:	Antioch on the Sarus (Adana)
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1379

• ΒΑ ΑΝ ΣΙ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1457

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 711

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Tyre
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 732; SNG Spaer, 1092

• ΙΕΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

  Mint:	Hierapolis (Bambyke)
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 448 (erroneously stated as ΗΙΕΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ); SNG Spaer, 1055

• ΙΕΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠΥΡΑΜΩΙ

  Mint:	Hierapolis on the Pyramos (Castabala)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1067

• ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΙ

  Mint:	Laodikeia by the Sea (Laodikeia ad Mare)
  Reference:	Houghton, CSE, 446; SNG Spaer, 1054

• ΜΟΨΕΑΤΩΝ

  Mint:	Seleukeia on the Pyramos (Mopsos)
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1385

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ

  Mint:	Seleukeia in Pieria
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1045

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠΥ

  Mint:	Seleukeia on the Pyramos (Mopsos)
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1386

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΠΥΡΑΜΩΙ

  Mint:	Seleukeia on the Pyramos (Mopsos)
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1060

• ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1456; Petr Vesely’s collection, A04-AE-09
  Note:	ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ on the obverse and ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ on the reverse.

• ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

  Mint:	Tripolis
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1068

Antiochos V

• ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

  Mint:	Tripolis
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1577

Antiochos VII

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Tyre
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 2037

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 2000

• ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΜ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ

  Mint:	Seleukeia in Pieria
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2074

• ΣΙΔΩ ΘΕΑΣ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2106

• ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2105

Antiochos VIII

• ΣΙΔΩ ΘΕΑΣ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 2579

Antiochos IX

• ΣΙΔΩ ΘΕΑΣ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2387

Demetrios I

• ΒΑ ΔΗ ΣΙ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1670

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1312

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Tyre
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1327

Demetrios II, 1st reign

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1957

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Tyre
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1688

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ

  Mint:	Tyre
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 1729
  Note:	A special issue of AR tetradrachms related to Demetrios II’s grant of asylia to the city of Tyre. All these tetradrachms are dated SE 172 (141/0 BC).

• ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

  Mint:	Tripolis
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 1951

Demetrios II, 2nd reign

• ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΥΡΙΩΝ

  Mint:	Tyre
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2198

• ΣΙΔΩ ΘΕΑΣ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	Houghton, Lorber and Hoover, SC II, 2190

• ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ

  Mint:	Sidon
  Reference:	SNG Spaer, 2209

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; Lorber, Catharine; Hoover, Oliver: Seleucid Coins, A Comprehensive Catalogue. Part II, Volumes 1 and 2. The American Numismatic Society, New York, in association with Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Lancaster/London, 2008. (abbr. SC II)

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)