CNG 85, Lot: 647. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.80 g, 12h). Dated year 111 of the Pharsalian Era (AD 63/4). Laureate head right; ΦPO below chin / Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right; APIC behind, AIP (date) below chin, ICA below. Prieur 1106; RPC 4385 corr. (Σ used in transcribing legend; same obv. die as illustration). VF, ΠЄ (85?) graffito in right field of obverse. Extremely rare with the ΦPO monogram on the obverse and APIC in the reverse legend and apparently the first to appear at auction.