196, Lot: 147. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Chalcis ad Libanum. Octavian. 32-31 BC. Æ 20mm (5.03 g, 12h). Zenodorus, tetrarch and archereus. Dated SE 282 (32/1 BC). Bare head of Octavian right; date (retrograde) to right / Bare head of Zenodorus left. RPC I 4774; cf. SNG Copenhagen 417. Near VF, dark grayish-green patina with some earthen deposits, some scratches and roughness on reverse.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Following the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Octavian restored the tetrarchy that ruled Chalcis prior to its bestowal on Cleopatra in 36 BC.