Further Selections from the Prieur Collection

437, Lot: 278. Estimate $200. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. temp. Gaius Julius Caesar/Sextus Julius Caesar. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 15.08 g, 1h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 3 of the Caesarean Era (47/6 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, Γ (date) and thunderbolt in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 4 (this coin); McAlee 4; RPC I 4127; SC 2491.1; HGC 9, 1360a. VF, toned, minor roughness. Very rare, only two examples known to Prieur, and one to the authors of RPC.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Reportedly ex Abramowitz Family Collection (Superior, 8 December 1993), lot 385 (part of).