437, Lot: 291. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.04 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 date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). Prieur 53; McAlee 183; RPC I 4154; DCA 400. Good VF, toned, a few minor surface deposits and some porosity.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 275, 7 March 2012), lot 50.