Usurper Uranius Antoninus
CNG 91, Lot: 633. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 9.39 g, 12h). AVTOK K C OVΛΠ ANTωNINOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and curiassed bust right / ΔΗMAPX ЄΞ OVCI[AC], eagle standing facing on ground line, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; ЄMICA (largely indistinct) in exergue. An unrecorded variety without S C across reverse field. VF, toned, porosity and light pitting, die breaks on reverse.