RPC Plate Coin
Ex NFA XXXI

443, Lot: 321. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.41 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on palm frond, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1490 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 431 (this coin illustrated); RPC III 3517/3 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, toned, a few light scratches. Rare, nine known to Prieur, none in CoinArchives, and seven specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI (18 March 1993), lot 590; Peus 279 (14 March 1972), lot 165.