297, Lot: 191. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.94 g, 12h). Dated year 26 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII (5 BC). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ςΚ (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; to right, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IB (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 180; Prieur 50; RPC I 4151; DCA 400. VF, porous, scratch before portrait.