Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1375. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Tetradrachm (15.14 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Dated AE 26 (5 BC). KAISAROS SE-BASTOV, laureate head right / ETOUS VK NIKHS, Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock outcropping, holding palm in right hand; right foot on river-god Orontes swimming to right below; VPA(toV) monogram and IB (consular date) above TAV monogram in right field. Prieur 50; Wruck 2; RPC I 4151; BMC 131; SNG Copenhagen 130. EF, minor traces of porosity. Beautiful portrait. ($500)