Lot 2733. VF/nVF with scrape, very rare and historically significant! 
Sold for $250 on vcoins.com, January, 2004.


Antioch under Roman Rule AE25. Year 9 = 41/40 BC.

obv: Laureate head of Zeus right 

rev: ANTIOCEWN THS MHTROPO-LEWS THS IERAS KAI ASULOU, Zeus seated left with 
     Victory & scepter, date Q & KL monogram (for Cleopatra?) below.


Only one example of RPC 4224 is noted.

41/40 BC was a very important year. Labienus and Pacoras had been killed 
and the Parthians were evicted from Syria by the Roman Imperial forces of 
Antony and Octavian. In that year, Antony and Cleopatra were married in Antioch.

The monogram below the date has been identified as KL, in honor of Antony and Cleopatra.

Coin ex F. Kovacs.

By permission of ancientcoinart.com, January, 2003.