Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 643. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $710. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (13.80 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 69/70). Laureate head right / Eagle standing left on club, with wings spread and wreath in beak; palm to left, crescent between legs. McAlee 349; Prieur 125; RPC 1958. VF, toned, light porosity, flan flaw on obverse. Imposing Flavian portrait. Rare.