439, Lot: 392. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.49 g, 12h). Struck AD 249. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 510 (this coin); McAlee 1111. Good VF, toned, some minor porosity. Very rare, only four known to Prieur, and two on CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Elsen 9 (6 February 1988), lot 85.