Triton XV, Lot: 1426. Estimate $750. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ As (26mm, 15.62 g, 12h). Dated year 30 of the Actian Era (2/1 BC). KAIΣAPI ΣEBAΣTΩ APXIEREI, laureate head right / APXIE/PATIKON/ ANTIOXEIΣ/ Λ (date) in four lines within wreath. McAlee 201; RPC I 4259; BMC 145. EF, black patina with earthen highlights, adjustment marks. Attractive portrait in high relief. Scarce final year of the archieratic series.

From Group CEM. Ex Walter Niggeler Collection (Part II, Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 21 October 1966), lot 663.