Prieur Cover Coin

Triton XXII, Lot: 567. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.99 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 63/4). NEPΩN KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ETOVΣ BIP • I (dates), eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm frond in right field. Prieur 89 and front cover (this coin illustrated); McAlee 265a; RPC I 4188. EF, attractively toned. Wonderful portrait. Exceptional quality for issue.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.