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| Gemini, LLC > Auction IX | Auction date: 9 January 2012 |
| Lot number: 259 | |
| Lot description: Tiberius. 27 BC-14 AD. Tetradrachm, 14.67g. (12h). Antioch ad Orontem, Seleucis and Pieria, Year 84 = 35/6 BC. Obv: TIB KAIΣAP ΣE - BAΣTOC Head laureate right, bead and reel border. Rx: ANTIOXEΩΝ Μ - Η - Τ - PΟΠΟΛΕΩ (sic, C omitted) around, date ΔΠ in lower right field, 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, border of dots. Reverse legend variant of RPC 4162 (3 specimens), Prieur 61 (4 specimens), and McAlee 210 ("V. Rare", same obverse die). The engraver omitted the last letter of ΜΗΤPΟΠΟΛΕΩC for lack of space. A splendid example, with excellent portrait, of the only certain Antioch tetradrachm of Tiberius, of which only a handful of specimens are known. Very rare, Choice EF. Probably the only tetradrachm of Tiberius struck at Antioch, very rare, and a new legend variant with a missing letter on the reverse. The tetradrachm of Tiberius with reverse showing Divus Augustus, RPC 4161, may have been struck at Tarsus rather than Antioch (McAlee, p. 122). Estimate: 15000 USD |  |
