Triton XXII, Lot: 599. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.54 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 202-204. AVT KAI CЄOVHPOC CЄ-B, laureate head right / ΔHMAPXI ЄΞ VΠA Γ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding grain ears and poppy in right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right. Prieur 182 (
this coin illustrated); McAlee 656/2 (
this coin illustrated). Near EF, toned. Fine style portrait. Rare.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Sternberg XV (11 April 1985), lot 450.