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| Gemini, LLC > Auction IX | Auction date: 9 January 2012 |
| Lot number: 255 | |
| Lot description: Augustus. 27 BC-14 AD. Tetradrachm, 15.31g. (12h). Antioch ad Orontem, Seleucis and Pieria, Year 29 and COS XII = October-December, 3 BC. Obv: KAIΣ[APO]Σ ΣE - BAΣTOV Head laureate right, bead and reel border. Rx: ETOVΣ - ΘK - NIKHΣ ("Year 29 after the Victory") Turreted Tyche of Antioch seated right on rocks, holding curving palm branch before her, at her feet river god Orontes swimming right with head facing, monograms expandable to "COS 12" and "Antioch" in field, border of dots. RPC 4154 (2 specimens), pl. 158 (same obverse die). Prieur 53 (3 specimens, same obverse die). McAlee 183 ("V. Rare", same obverse die).. Exquisite example of this highly desirable coin bearing a magnificent portrait of Augustus. EF. A rare issue struck between the beginning of Year 29 of the Actian era, probably in fall 3 BC, and Augustus' entrance into his thirteenth consulship on 1 January 2 BC. All coins come from a single obverse die, which had already been used in Year 28 and continued to be used in the next issue recording the emperor's new consulship. Estimate: 2500 USD |  |
