Ancient ; Seleukos I Nikator ; In the name and types of Alexander III ; Silver Tetradrachm of the Seleucid Empire ; 311/300 BC Mint: Babylon

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Ancient ; Seleukos I Nikator ; In the name and types of Alexander III ; Silver Tetradrachm of the Seleucid Empire ; 311/300 BC
Weight: 16.69 Grams ; Mint: Babylon
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Seleucus I Nicator (c. 358 ? 281 BC) was a Macedonian Greek general who was an officer and successor (diadochus) of Alexander the Great. Seleucus was the founder of the eponymous Seleucid Empire. In the power struggles that followed Alexander’s death, Seleucus rose from being a secondary player to becoming total ruler of Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Iranian Plateau, eventually assuming the title of basileus (king). The state he established on these territories, the Seleucid Empire, was one of the major powers of the Hellenistic world, until being overcome by the Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in the late second and early first centuries BC. Seleucus founded a number of new cities during his reign, including Antioch (300 BC), Edessa and Seleucia on the Tigris (c. 305 BC), a foundation that eventually depopulated Babylon.