Seleucia Pieria

1/4 Mina

Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Cast

Square

6.20 cm

6.10 cm

0.60 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
109.62	-	-	Boeckh 1838	No	No	No
109.39	-	-	Longpérier 1847; Schillbach 1865	No	No	No
113.85	-	-	Schillbach 1877; Michon 1907	No	No	No
114.00	-	-	Seyrig 1946–48	No	No	No
112.81	-	-	Weinberg 1987	No	No	No
112.80	-	June 7, 2018	Autopsy Damien Delvigne	No	No	Yes

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

Schillbach 1877: Ausserdem erwähnt derselbe Aufsatz [Longpérier 1847] p. 339 eine Viertelmine aus Seleukeia und aus Antiocheia. Die erstere aus Seleukeia habe ich in Kopenhagen, wo sie sich im Königl. Antiken-Kabinet befindet, selbst untersucht und gewogen; sie ist von Bronze, wie die von Antiochien und zeigt ebenso wie diese einen linkshin schreitenden Buckelochsen oder Bison. Vor ihm erblickt man innerhalb eines länglichen Vierecks einen Anker; über dem Bilde liest man ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΙΩΝ, unterhalb ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝ. Das Gewicht, welches bei Longpérier etwas zu niedrig angegeben ist, mit 109,392 gr., beträgt 113,85 gr., was auf eine Mine von 455,4 gr. führt […].
Seyrig 1946–48: Autre exemplaire du même instrument [que le n° I.B.2: Poids de bronze, carré. 63 mm. Bordure moulurée, percée en haut d’un petit trou. (…) Bœuf bossu à gauche. Devant lui, contremarque en forme d’ancre. Σελεύκειον | τέταρτον. Revers lisse.]
Weinberg 1987: Identical to the weight Missouri n° 85.6 [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.] The height and width of the Copenhagen weight are almost identical to ours, but the weight of theirs is 112.81 gr., as against 117.4 gr. for the Missouri weight. The difference would have been greater before the suspension hole was drilled in our weight, probably amounting to as much as 10 gr., but this was apparently tolerable variance within the system. 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.

Yes

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Denomination, Mint

Σελεύκειον | τέταρτον.
Boeckh 1838: Τέταρτον Σελευκέων
Schillbach 1877: Σελευκείων | τέταρτον
Seyrig 1946–48: Σελεύκειον | τέταρτον

GREEK

FROM -250 TO -100

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

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
National Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen)	Dec. 31, 1778	ABa 57

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Boeckh 1838	128	None	None	None
Longpérier 1847	339	None	None	None
Vázquez Queipo 1859	487–488	None	None	None
Schillbach 1865	184–185, 206–207	75e	None	None
CIG IV	268	8542	None	None
Schillbach 1877	8	None	None	None
Soutzo 1884	61	282	None	None
Michon 1907	556, n. 3	None	None	None
Seyrig 1946–48	45	I.B.3	None	(1re série)
Weinberg 1987	71*–72*	None	fig. 2	None
Gatier 1994	144–148	None	fig. 3	None
Lund 1996	57	None	None	None
Finkielsztejn 2014a	72–73, 75	16 = 17	None	(duplicates)
Haslund Hansen 2016	136–137	None	None	None
Tekin 2024c	None	None	fig. 23	None

Boeckh 1938: “mit einer unvollkommenen Waage gewogen” (by Otfr. Müller): 7 ½ Loth = 2064 Paris grains (= 109.62g).
Gatier (1994) suggests that the weight Seyrig 1946–48, n° I.B.3 (114g) could be identical with the weight conserved in the Museum of Art and Archaeology – University of Missouri, n° 85.6 (same types, 117.4g) [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).