Well Struck Augustus Tetradrachm

210, Lot: 115. Estimate $750. Sold for $905. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.00 g, 12h). Dated Actian Era 30 (2/1 BC). Laureate head right / Tyche seated right on rock outcropping, holding palm branch, foot resting on river-god Orontes swimming right; Λ (date) above. RPC I 4156; McAlee 185; Prieur 55. Good VF, a bit porous. Well-centered and sharply struck.