CNG 102, Lot: 743. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.02 g, 12h). Dated year 27 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII (5/4 BC). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ZΚ (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IB (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 181; Prieur 51; RPC I 4152; DCA 400. Good VF, toned, minor areas of roughness.