“New Holy Year”
Illustrated in Prieur

437, Lot: 338. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.76 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 1 (AD 69). Laureate head right / Eagle standing left on club, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left. Prieur 132 (this coin); McAlee 355; RPC II 1970.16 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, deeply toned, some minor porosity.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 42 (11 October 1988), lot 412.