Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 862. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. BI Tetradrachm (12.03 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail right, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Baldus Suppl. III, Serie II, 3 (dies XV/-; this coin, illustrated) = Prieur 1049 (this coin referenced). Good VF, dark brown patina with traces of earthen deposits, a few light cleaning marks.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Sternberg XI (20 November 1981), lot 392.

Although Baldus notes that this coin uses a new reverse die, he does not give it any enumeration.