Published by Bland in NumChron in 1991
Prieur Plate coin
439, Lot: 409. Estimate $100. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Herennia Etruscilla. Augusta, AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.12 g, 5h). 6th officina. Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent; ς below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 613 (this coin); McAlee 1166f; Bland, “Six Hoards of Syrian Tetradrachms of the Third Century AD,”
NumChron 1991, p. 29 & pl. 11, no. 107 (this coin). Good VF, toned with areas of find patina, some peripheral roughness.
From the Michel Prieur Collection.