Triton XVI, Lot: 721. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.31 g, 6h). Struck AD 178-179. AVT KAICAP ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head right / ΓЄP CAP ΔΗM ЄΞ ΛΓ VΠAT Γ, eagle standing facing on leg and thigh on animal, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; to right, palm frond above ram’s head right; star in exergue. McAlee 579; Prieur 162. VF, very minor field marks and metal flaws. Extremely rare - only the fourth known and the second in private hands.

McAlee knew of only three examples of this type (BMC 343; BN; and CNG 41, lot 1468), all of which were struck from the same dies as the current coin.