Triton XVIII, Lot: 895. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.21 g, 12h). Dated year 36 of the Actian Era and year 54 of the Caesarean Era (AD 6). ΚAIΣAPOΣ ΣΕ–BAΣTOY, laureate head right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPOΠOΛEΩΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond in right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; ςΛ (Actian Era date) above; in right field, ΔN (Caesarean Era date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 187; Prieur 57; RPC I 4158; DCA 401. Choice EF, toned. Great metal for issue.

From the Collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Tkalec (23 October 1998), lot 110.