196, Lot: 148. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Chalcis ad Libanum. Octavian. 32-31 BC. Æ 21mm (6.43 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; SNG Copenhagen 417 var. (date). VF, dark green patina, earthen deposits.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

RPC notes that variations of the formation of the date occur, sometimes appearing in retrogade (as this and the previous lot), and at times with a degraded B that looks more like a Δ (as on the present coin).