343, Lot: 348. Estimate $200. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.18 g, 12h). Dated year 29 of the Actian Era and Cos. XIII (2 BC). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ΘK (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IΓ (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 184; Prieur 54; RPC I 4155; DCA 400. Good VF, some porosity.

From the Colin Kirk Collection.