AUGUSTUS SILVER TETRADRACHM – ANTIOCH 5/4 BC ISSUE IN CHRIST BIRTH YEAR – NGC AU ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 21251)

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21251. ROMAN EMPIRE. AUGUSTUS, 27 BC–AD 14. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF ANTIOCH, SELEUCIS AND PIERIA.
Silver Tetradrachm, 14.71 g, 27 mm. Dated year 27 (Actian era) and Consular date XII = 5/4 BC.
Obv. KAIΣAPOΣ ΣEBAΣTOY, laureate head of Augustus right. Rev. Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm, river god Orontes swimming to right, ETOVΣ ZK (Actian Era date) above; in right field, IB (consular date) above civic monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?).
Prieur 51; McAlee 181.
NGC AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, minted in 5/4 BC which is within the range of what modern scholarship considers to be the birthdate of Jesus Christ (between 6 and 4 BC).