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Tetradrachm

Date

2 B.C.

Medium

Silver

Culture

Greek

Department

Coins

Institution

Getty Museum

Obverse: Head of Augustus, facing in profile to right, wearing a laurel wreath. Inscribed in Greek, clockwise around head: [ΣΕ]ΒΑΣΤΟΥ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ. Bead and reel border. Reverse: the goddess Tyche, seated and facing right, wearing her mural crown, holding a palm branch out; below her, the river god Orontes swimming to the right. Inscribed inside beaded border, clockwise, in Greek: ΕΤΟΥΣ ΘΚ [Ν]ΙΚΗΕ ["Etous Nike," or "of the year of victory 29" with the theta/kappa at the center indicating the Actian era date, based on the victory of Octavian over Anthony at the battle of Action.] In the field: monogram ΥΠΑ [Upsilon pi alpha] [followed by ΙΓ [iota gamma, for the consular date] and below, the monogram ANT [perhaps a reference to Antioch, the city in which it was minted.]

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