RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 330. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tridrachm (24mm, 11.26 g, 6h). Struck AD 100. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Laureate bust of Melqart-Hercules right, with lion’s skin tied around neck. Prieur 1483 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 476A; RPC III 3567/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned, a few light scratches. Very rare, only eight known to Prieur, four in CoinArchives, and two specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Amphora Coins FPL 44 (Autumn 1990), lot 245.