AUGUSTUS SILVER TETRADRACHM – ANTIOCH ISSUE STRUCK IN 5 BC THE HISTORICAL DATE OF JESUS CHRIST’S BIRTH – AU NGC GRADED ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 19398)

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19398. ROMAN EMPIRE. AUGUSTUS, 27 BC–AD 14. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF ANTIOCH.
Silver tetradrachm, 14.88 g, 28 mm. Issue of year 26 (Actian era) with consular date XII (5 BC).
Obv. KAIΣAΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ, laureate head of Augustus right. Rev. Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm, river god Orontes swimming to right, ETOYΣ SK (Actian Era date = 26) above; in right field, IB (consular date = XII) above civic monogram (ANTIOXIEΩN?).
Prieur 50; RPC 4151; McAlee 180.
NGC graded AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 2/5.