CNG 103, Lot: 582. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.99 g, 12h). Dated year 29 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII (October-December 3 BC). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ΘΚ (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 iteration) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 183; Prieur 53; RPC I 4154; DCA 400. Good VF, toned, areas of light porosity. Rare last issue of the twelfth consulship.