Triton XXII, Lot: 686. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Geta. AD 209-211. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 12.45 g, 12h). AVT KAI ΓЄTAC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO B, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur & Amandry –; McAlee, Severan –; Prieur 1175 (this coin, illustrated). Superb EF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (19 April 1993), lot 327 (part of).