Triton XV, Lot: 1428. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.60 g, 12h). Struck AD 208-209. AVT • KAI • • CЄOVHPOC CЄ •, laureate bust right, wearing cuirass with aegis and trabea, slight drapery / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ • VΠATOC • TO • Γ •, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. McAlee, Severan Group 3, 24 (this coin cited); Prieur 1151 (same obv. die as illustration, citing 3). Good VF, toned, minor metal flaws. Very rare.

From Group CEM. Ex Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 90.