Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 573. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Autonomous. After 49/48 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.36 gm). Imitation of Philip Philadelphos of Syria. Dated year 5 (45/44 BC) of the Caesarian Era. Diademed head of Philip right / [BA]SILEW[S] [F]ILIPPOU EPIFANOU[S] [FI]LADEL[FOU], Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre; ANT monogram before, E (date) in exergue. RPC I 4129; Prieur 6. EF, a few small spots of green encrustation on the obverse. ($400)