250, Lot: 247. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Augustus, 31 BC-AD 14. Æ Dichalkon (17mm, 5.36 g, 12h). Dated year 35 of the Actian Era (AD 4/5). Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right / Tripod topped with three laurel branches, sides of bowl are faces in profile; E-Λ (date) flanking. McAlee 92; RPC I 4263; SNG Copenhagen 94. VF, dark brown patina with earthen highlights. Very rare and superior to the published specimens.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.