Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1294. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. Regnal Year 31 (1 BC/1 AD). AR Tetradrachm (14.55 gm). Laureate head right / Tyche seated right, holding palm branch, river-god Orontes swimming to right below; date AL above, two monograms and IG before. Prieur 56; RPC I 4157. VF, minor porosity. ($300)

One of only three issues actually dated to the start of the Common Era.