Uranius Antoninus - Usurper
Two Unpublished Tetradrachms

CNG 90, Lot: 1110. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.21 g, 1h). Laureate head left / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail right, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Baldus - (dies XIII/ - [an unlisted rev. die]); Baldus, Nachtrag II, Serie II, 3 var. (bust type); Prieur 1045 var. (head of eagle left). VF, brown surfaces, minor porosity. Choice for issue and apparently unique obverse-reverse combination.