373, Lot: 282. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.02 g, 12h). Dated year 28 of the Actian Era (4/3 BC). Laureate head right / Fortuna seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; HK (consular date) above; in right field, monogram and IB (Caesarean Era date) above monogram. McAlee 182; Prieur 52; RPC I 4153; DCA 400. VF, lightly toned.

From the Byron Schieber Collection.