Seleucia Pieria

1/4 Mina

Metal: Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Cast

Square

6.35 cm

6.25 cm

0.60 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
117.40	-	-	Weinberg 1987	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Zebu	Relief	LEFT	Walking
Anchor	Stamped / Countermarked / Struck

Weinberg 1987: Very nearly square (height: 6.25 cm.; width: 6.35 cm.), [with] a thickness of 0.6 cm. at the edges, but the plate is only ca. 0.3 cm. thick; its weight is 117.4 gr. In relief on the plate, facing left, is a zebu, or humped bull, standing on a straight ground line with its right legs forward and left legs back. Between the forward front leg and the left border moulding is a countermark, in which is an anchor with the long arms pointing downward. The inscription, in two bands – above and below the zebu – reads: ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΙΟΝ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝ. […] There are reasons to believe that the two weights [Missouri n° 85.6 and Copenhagen n° ABa 57] were cast from the same pattern; this is shown most clearly by the fact that the letters are not all of the same size and that those which are small, or those which are exceptionally large, are the same on both weights. In addition, the spacing of the letters varies markedly, while the alignment is not very careful; these irregularities are the same on both weights, again bespeaking a common pattern.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Denomination, Mint

Σελεύκειον | τέταρτον.

GREEK

FROM -250 TO -100

According to Seyrig 1946–48, p. 45–46: 301–187/6 BCE; Gatier 1994: mid-2nd c. BCE?

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Museum of Art and Archaeology – University of Missouri (Columbia)	Dec. 31, 1985	85.6

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
McGill 1986	31	6	fig.	None
Weinberg 1987	71*–72*	None	fig. 1	None
Gatier 1994	144–148	None	None	None
Finkielsztejn 2014a	73, 75	18	None	None
Tekin 2025a	140–142	None	fig. 22	None

6.35×6.25×0.6 cm (at the edges: the plate is only ca. 0.3 cm thick).
Gatier 1994 suggest that this weight (117.4g) could be identical with the weight published by Seyrig 1946–48, p. 45, n° I.B.3 (same types, 114g) [confusion with the weight n° I.B.4 (118g)]. The weight I.B.3 is actually the one conserved in Copenhagen, Inv.No. ABa 57 (see e.a. Boeckh 1838 and Schillbach 1877, vs. Seyrig: unknown location)