CNG 96, Lot: 658. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.38 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Baldus, Nachtrag Ξ/ξ = Prieur 1058 var. or corr. Near VF, earthen deposits, peripheral roughness on reverse. Perhaps the second known.

The reverse legend on the current coin appears to end [...]YΠAT B, whereas Prieur notes the specimen published by Baldus ends [...]YΠATO B. It is not entirely clear from the photograph in Baldus.