Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 596. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Tetradrachm (15.21 g, 1h). Dated year 30 of the Actian Era (2/1 BC). Laureate head right / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock outcropping, holding palm; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; date in legend. Prieur 55; RPC I 4156; SNG Copenhagen 133 var. (date). Good VF, area of flat strike in obverse legend. High-relief portrait. ($300)