Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 854. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $980. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Tetradrachm (13.01 g, 5h). Struck AD 179. Laureate and draped bust right / Eagle standing left, head and tail right, on thigh of sacrificial animal with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; star to left. McAlee 633 (same rev. die); Prieur 172. Good VF, minor porosity on obverse.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Berk BBS 88 (28 November 1995), lot 665.