441, Lot: 342. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.52 g, 12h). Struck AD 103-111. Laureate head right; c/m: laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right of Commodus(?); K before; all within oval incuse / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond with right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus swimming right; civic monogram to right. Prieur 758; cf. SNG Levante 991; cf. SNG BN 1393-4; RPC III 3257; for countermark: Howgego 842. Near VF, toned, some porosity; c/m is Fine. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and one on CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 214 (15 February 2001), lot 1706.