Unpublished Uranius Antoninus Variety

233, Lot: 289. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 10.93 g, 6h). AYTO K COYΛΠ ANTωNINOC CЄ, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ OYCIAC YΠATO, eagle standing facing, head and tail to right, with wings spread; B S C in exergue. Prieur 1050 = Baldus Suppl. III 4 var. (head and tail to left). Near VF, rough, porous surfaces. Apparently unrecorded.