Two Extremely Rare Marcus Aurelius Tetradrachms

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 852. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $7100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AR Tetradrachm (13.92 g, 12h). Struck AD 178/9. Laureate and draped bust right / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock outcropping, holding grain ears; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; to upper right, star above ram’s head left. McAlee 577 (this coin referenced); Prieur 160 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, the only example recorded.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex M&M Numsimatics I (7 December 1997), lot 251; Numismatica Ars Classica B (25 February 1992), lot 1967 .