Triton XXII, Lot: 600. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.75 g, 12h). Struck AD 202-204. AVT KAI ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX 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 187 (
this coin illustrated); McAlee 662. EF, toned. Very rare, only 6 cited by Prieur, no additional in CoinArchives.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 775; Leu 54 (28 Apiril 1992), lot 275; Münzen und Medaillen AG 61 (7 October 1982), lot 173.