McAlee Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 645. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $655. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tetradrachm (13.92 g, 6h). Struck AD 119. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head left, with wings spread. Prieur 157 corr. (bust type); McAlee 535 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, toned, light surface crystallization.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (28 March 2001), lot 856.