Extremely Rare Pescennius Niger Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 855. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. AR Tetradrachm (12.37 g, 6h). AVTOK KAICAP Π ЄCK NIГPω ΔIK CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΠPONOIA ΘЄωN, eagle standing facing, head and tail right, on palm with wings displayed. McAlee 653 = Prieur 179 corr. (obv. legend; this coin referenced and illustrated). Good VF, obverse surface irregularities due to overstrike on uncertain type. Extremely rare.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Berk BBS 82 (13 July 1994), lot 768; Berk BBS 63 (29 August 1990), lot 266.