Published by McAlee
Illustrated in RPC

436, Lot: 349. Estimate $500. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.32 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 2 (AD 69/70). AVTOKPAT KAIΣA OVEΣΠAΣIANOV, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ETOVΣ NEOV IEPOV B (date), eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm frond to right. Prieur 104; McAlee 325 (this coin illustrated); RPC II 1937.7 (this coin); McAlee, “Vespasian’s Syrian provincial coinage,” AJN 7-8 (1995-96), 2 (this coin, illustrated on pl. 15). VF, toned, porosity. Fine Alexandrian-stye portrait.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection.