437, Lot: 294. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.88 g, 12h). Dated year 42 of the Actian Era and year 60 of the Caesarean Era (AD 12). Laureate head right / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond in right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; BM (Actian Era date) above; in right field, Ξ (date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). Prieur 58; McAlee 188 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 4159; RPC Suppl. I 4159/5 (this coin); DCA 401. VF, toned, some minor porosity.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection.