441, Lot: 327. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Mopsouestia-Mopsos. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.56 g, 6h). Laureate and draped bust right; (ΠΠ) below chin / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread; flaming altar between legs. Prieur 724 (this coin); SNG Levante 1332; SNG BN 1967; RPC III 3359/5 (this coin cited). Near VF, toned, faint hairline scratches on the obverse. Very rare, six known to Prieur, and none on CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.