CNG 96, Lot: 659. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.63 g, 1h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S–C below wings, B in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, but see Prieur 1060 for similar with eagle’s head and tail to right. VF, earthen deposits.