Triton XXII, Lot: 588. Estimate $500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.22 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 2 (AD 98/9). AVT KAIΣ NEP TPAIA ΣEB ΓEPM, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ETOVΣ NEOV IEPOV B (date), eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm frond to right. Prieur 153; McAlee 425; RPC III 3510.5 (this coin). EF, obverse double struck. Rare.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.