Triton XXII, Lot: 590. Estimate $500. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.68 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANOC CЄB ΓЄPM, laureate head of Trajan right, set on eagle standing right; palm frond to upper left, club to lower right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠAT B, laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion’s skin tied around neck. Prieur 1478 (Tyre); McAlee 450; RPC III 3523.12 (this coin). Good VF, toned.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 757139 (July 2005); Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 2002; Antiqua FPL V (December 1997), no. 48.