325, Lot: 419. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Domitian. AD 81-96. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.71 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 8 (AD 88/9). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; [H] (date) to upper right. McAlee 398; Prieur 145; RPC II 1978. Fine, toned.

Although the date is not struck on the flan, the style of the portrait is comparable to examples struck in year 8.