Augustus - RPC I 4245.12

VF, one of the better specimens known

Roman Provincial, Augustus (27 BCE- 14 CE), Bronze Trichalkon, Syria Coele, Antioch mint

• Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus facing right
• Reverse ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ with ϚΚ (date) in right field field / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm branch, with half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming below. 
• Denomination: Trichalcon
• Metal: Bronze
• Mint:  Syria, Coele, Antioch (6– 5 BCE)
• Weight/Size/Axis:     7.95 g / 20 mm / 0

Reference: 

• RPC I 4245.12 (This coin)
• SNG Copenhagen 91
• BMC 58
• McAlee 86

Provenance:

• ex - Jared Clark

Other Information:

• This coin is dated (ϚΚ in right feild on reverse) to year 26 of the Actian Era.  This date corresponds to 6/5 BCE.
• Struck under P. Quinctillius Varus, Governor (legatus Augusti pro praetore)