Published in Prieur

436, Lot: 233. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare (as Julia-Laodicea). 78/7-17/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.01 g, 1h). Dated year 5 of the Caesarian Era (44/3 BC). Veiled, draped, and turreted bust of Tyche right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; IOYΛIEΩN TΩN KAI ΛAOΔIKEΩN to outer left and right, AΛ and E (date) to inner left; two monograms below throne, K and monogram in exergue; all within wreath. Mørkholm, Autonomous 24 (obv. die 26); RPC 4380; HGC 9, 1402; DCA 568; Prieur 1093 (this coin). VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.