Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1408. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $735. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (15.41 g, 12h). Dated Actian Era 29 (3/2 BC). Laureate head right / Tyche seated right on rock outcropping, holding palm branch in extended right hand, resting on raised leg with foot set on river-god Orontes below, swimming to right; date above. RPC 4155; McAlee 183; Prieur 54. Good VF, toned.

From the Richard Prideaux Collection of Augustus.