Three Known to Prieur

CNG 96, Lot: 660. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 10.42 g, 12h). Struck AD 205-207. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding rudder and cornucopia; at feet, half–length figure of harbor–god swimming right, holding Pharos of Laodicea. M. Prieur & M. Amandry, “Nouvel apport à l'étude de tétradrachmes Sévériens de Laodicée,” RBN CXXIII (1987), Group I, 1 (same dies); Prieur 1112 (citing 3, same dies as illustration). VF, lightly toned, porosity. Extremely rare.