437, Lot: 279. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. temp. Q. Caecilius Bassus. Proconsul, 46-44 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.31 g, 12h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 4 of the Caesarean Era (46/5 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, ∆ (date) and thunderbolt in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 5; McAlee 5a; RPC I 4128; SC 2491.2; HGC 9, 1360b. Good VF, lightly toned, some roughness.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from CNG.