Triton XXII, Lot: 509. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tridrachm (26mm, 7.88 g, 6h). AV KAI Λ CЄ CЄOVHPOC [ΠЄP]T AVΓV, laureate head right / CЄΛЄVKЄΩN TΩ-N Π-POC TΩ KAΛ-VK, AΔ-NΩ C-Є in field, Nike alighting left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left. Prieur 739; SNG BN –; SNG Levante 734; BMC 23; Ziegler 423 (this coin). VF, toned, a hint of porosity. Extremely rare, only the British Museum and Levante specimens cited by Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münz Zentrum 129 (7 September 2005), lot 229.