244, Lot: 341. Estimate $100. Sold for $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ As (27mm, 16.71 g, 12h). Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus Syriae. Dated RY 1 and year 45 of the Actian Era (AD 14). Bare head right / A/ EΠI ΣI/ΛANOV ANTIO/XEΩN/ ЄM in six lines within laurel wreath. McAlee 214; RPC 4270. VF, dark brown patina, some roughness, adjustment marks on reverse. Pleasing portrait.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.