VAuctions > Triskeles Sale 26 | Auction date: 7 December 2018 |
Lot number: 473 | |
Lot description: Syria, Seleucis and Pieria. Antiochia ad Orontem. Under Parthian administration. 1st century B.C. Æ tetrachalkon (23 mm, 12.36 g, 1 h). Year 272 of the Seleucid era (41/0 B.C.). Laureate head of Zeus right / ANTIOXΕΩN THΣ MHTPOΠOΛEΩΣ KAI IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY KAI AYTONOMOY, Zeus seated left, holding Nike and scepter; before, pileus surmounted by star; below, BOΣ (date). McAlee 56/1 (this coin); RPC 4223 corr. (legend); HGC 9, 1369 (this coin illus.). Black patina with reddish-orange earthen encrustations. Choice very fine. Estimate: 75 USD | ![]() |