AUGUSTUS SILVER TETRADRACHM – 5 BC ISSUE REGARDED BY SOME AS CHRIST’S BIRTH YEAR EX SALTON COLLECTION – CHOICE FIINE ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 18540)

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18540. ROMAN EMPIRE. AUGUSTUS, 27 BC–AD 14. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF ANTIOCH.
Silver Tetradrachm, 15.04 g, 27 mm. Issue of year 26 (Actian era) with consular date XII (5 BC).
Obv. KAIΣAPOΣ ΣEBAΣTOY, laureate head of Augustus right. Rev. ETOYΣ ΝΙΚΗΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm, river god Orontes swimming to right, SK (Actian Era date = 26) above; in right field, IB (consular date = XII) above civic monogram (ANTIOXIEΩN?).
Prieur 50; RPC 4151; McAlee 180.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s–1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
Choice Fine, dark toning, some surface scratches.