An Attractive First Year Issue
SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.31 g, 12h). Dated year 26 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII (5 BC). KAIΣAPOΣ ΣEBAΣTOY, laureate head right / ETOVΣ ςΚ (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond in right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IB (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 180; RPC I 4151; Prieur 50. Some luster, a few light nicks and hairlines. EF. The first year of issue of this popular series.
Ex Bohemond Collection of the Coins of Antioch.
