Triton XXII, Lot: 673. Estimate $1000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.74 g, 12h). Struck AD 208-209. AVT KAI ANTΩNЄINOC C, laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery, with gorgoneion on breastplate / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Γ, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur & Amandry Group III, 39; McAlee, Severan, Group III, 27; Prieur 1154. EF, toned. Rare and artistic bust type, 8 cited by Prieur, 1 in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 664; Rynearson FPL (Spring 1988), no. 54.