SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Galba. AD 68-69. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.91 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 68/9). Good VF.

CNG Feature Auction 132
Lot: 626. Estimated: $ 3 000

Roman Provincial, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 3 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Galba. AD 68-69. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.91 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 68/9). Bare head right / Eagle standing left on wreath, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left, ЄTOYC B (date) in exergue. McAlee 308; RPC I 4198.18 (this coin); Prieur 100. Toned, light scratches, die break on obverse. Good VF. Attractive portrait.

From the Deer Creek Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 114 (13 May 2020), lot 520.

Considering the distance from Rome to Syria, it seems remarkable that Syrian mints were able to produce coin portraits of exceptional quality despite the brevity of reigns seen during the Year of the Four Emperors, AD 68-69. Galba, for example, ruled only a little more than seven months, only three of these from Rome. Yet in this time proper effigies of the elderly new Caesar were prepared and transported to widely dispersed imperial mints. McAlee attributes the Galba coinage normally assigned the Antioch to three different subsidiary mints. This issue, with the reverse of an eagle standing on a wreath, he assigns to a “wreath mint,” probably Tripolis, of which he notes the portraits “compare favorably with the best portraits of Galba on the coinage of Rome.”

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CNG Feature Auction 132 – Session Three – Lot 588-888 will be held Tuesday morning, 19 May 2026 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

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