Triton XXI, Lot: 697. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.95 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated year 36 of the Actian Era and year 54 of the Caesarean Era (AD 6). ΚAIΣAPOΣ ΣΕ-BAΣTOY, laureate head right / ANTIOXEΩ[N MHTPO]ΠOΛEΩΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond in right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; ςΛ (Actian Era date) above; in right field, ΔN (date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 187; Prieur 57; RPC I 4158; DCA 401. Good VF, attractively toned.