Illustrated in Prieur

437, Lot: 322. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.00 g, 12h). Dated year 114 of the Caesarean Era (AD 65/6). Laureate bust left, wearing aegis / ETOYC • Δ-IP, eagle standing left, wings spread, on club; palm frond to left. Prieur 91 (this coin); McAlee 266; RPC I 4191 corr. (aegis not described). VF, lightly toned, a touch of porosity.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Dr. Awad in 1988.