McAlee Plate Coin

347, Lot: 397. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Didrachm (21mm, 6.93 g, 7h). Dated Cos. 2 (AD 98-99). Laureate head right / Draped bust of Baalat-Hera right, holding scepter and papyrus roll(?). McAlee 483/2 (this coin illustrated); Metcalf, Caesarea, 58 var. (Baalat-Hera left); Sydenham, Caesarea, 174 var. (same). VF, attractively toned. Very rare, with McAlee citing only one other example, which is in his collection.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 50 (9 October 2002), lot 44; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s 10 June 1970), lot 408.