RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 331. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.38 g, 7h). Struck AD 103-111. Laureate head of Trajan right, set on eagle standing right; club to right / Laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion’s skin tied around neck. Prieur 1495A (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 455; RPC III 3528/29 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, toned, a couple spots of verdigris.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Cisjordania Hoard I, no. 20 (1996).