Pedigreed to 1967

Triton XXII, Lot: 667. Estimate $750. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.35 g, 12h). Struck AD 205-207. AVT KAI ANTΩNЄINOC C, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC B, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread; star between legs. Prieur & Amandry Group I, 9 (this coin illustrated on pl. XIV); McAlee, Severan, Group I, 5 (this coin cited); Prieur 1130. EF, toned, a few minor deposits. Great portrait.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 606; Auctiones AG 15 (18 September 1985), lot 379; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 279 (August 1967), no. 42.