Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 847. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (13.06 g, 12h). Dated “Holy Year” 3 (AD 70/1). Laureate head right / Eagle standing left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left, date above. RPC 1947; McAlee 336; Prieur 113. VF, toned, small pit and light scrape on reverse.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIX (30 March 1994), lot 986.