Triton XXII, Lot: 580. Estimate $500. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.06 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 3 (AD 70/1). AYTOKPA OYЄCΠACIANOC KAICAP CЄBACTOC, laureate head right / ЄTO[YC] NЄOY IЄPOY Γ (date), eagle standing left on club, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left. Prieur 124 (this coin illustrated); McAlee 346; RPC III 1955.3 (this coin, illustrated on pl. 87). VF, toned. Fine style. Rare.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Lanz 42 (23 November 1987), lot 478.