Illustrated in Prieur
Pedigreed to 1982

437, Lot: 341. Estimate $200. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.54 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 4 (AD 71/2). Laureate bust left, slight drapery / Eagle standing left on garlanded altar, head right, with wings spread and caduceus in beak, and palm frond in talon. Prieur 137 (this coin); McAlee 359b; RPC II 1973. VF, lightly toned, a few small flan splits. Bold portrait.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 441 (February 1982), lot 31.