449, Lot: 201. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKIS and PIERIA, Seleukeia Pieria. 149–6 BC. Æ (21.5mm, 7.28 g, 4h). Adelphoi Demi ("The Brother Peoples") issue. Dated SE 165 (148/7 BC). Laureate head of Zeus right / Thunderbolt; EΞP (date) and monogram above, [monogram below]. HGC 9, 1396; SNG München 578 (same obv. die). Earthen dark green patina, off center on reverse. VF.

This issue was struck for the Tetrapolis of Seleukis, composed of Antioch on the Orontes, Apameia on the Orontes, Laodikeia ad Mare, and Seleukeia Pieria, which was mentioned by Strabo (XVI 2,4).