Triton XXII, Lot: 660. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.88 g, 12h). Struck AD 205-207. AVT KAI CЄOVHPOC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC Γ, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread; star between legs. Prieur & Amandry Group I, 7 (this coin cited); McAlee, Severan, Group I, 3 (this coin cited); Prieur 1121 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, toned. Very rare.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 711; Superior (9 December 1989), lot 3275; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXX.1 (January 1972), no. 93; Hess-Leu 41 (24 April 1969), lot 281.