437, Lot: 284. Estimate $200. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. temp. Labienus/Ventidius Bassus. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 15.17 g, 1h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 10 of the Caesarean Era (40/39 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, I (date) and thunderbolt in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 10 (this coin); McAlee 10; RPC I 4133; SC 2491.7; HGC 9, 1360g. Good VF, toned, some granularity. Very rare, two examples known to Prieur, and one to the authors of RPC.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.