Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 442. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of GALATIA. Amyntas. 36-25 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.77 gm). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; monogram behind / BASI-LEW[S] AMUN-T[OU], Nike advancing left, holding sceptre entwined with diadem; IB before. BMC Galatia pg. 2, 2; SNG von Aulock 6105; SNG Copenhagen 95. Toned, good VF, light porosity. Scarce. ($1000) 

Ex W. Talbot Ready Collection (Feuardent, 28 June 1919), lot 536. 

Amyntas saw service as an auxiliary commander in the Roman army of Brutus and Cassius. He gained the favor of Mark Antony and was granted the Kingdom of Galatia, but deserted Antony before Actium, aligning himself with Octavian. He died in battle in 25 BC and his kingdom was annexed as a Roman province.