Prieur Plate Coin

441, Lot: 337. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tridrachm (27.5mm, 9.77 g, 7h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Herakles standing facing, head right, wearing lion skin headdress, holding quiver by strap and club. Prieur 745 (this coin); SNG Levante 745; SNG BN –. VF, lightly toned, some roughness and/or porosity. Very rare, only five known to Prieur, and one on CoinArchives (Triton VII, lot 786 = Levante 745).

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 693.