SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.51 g, 11h). Dated year 26 of the Actian Era and Cos. XII (6/5 BC). Laureate head right / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IB (consular iteration) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). McAlee 180; RPC I 4151; Prieur 50; DCA 400. Lightly toned, minor porosity. Good Fine. Rare.
From the Dr. Michael Slavin Collection, purchased from Kevin Barry, May 1999.