RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 333. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.02 g, 6h). Struck AD 103-111. Laureate head of Trajan right, set on eagle standing right; club to left / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding grain ears and poppy heads with right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right, head left. Prieur 1493 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 468; RPC III 3534/19 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, deeply toned, edge splits.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Superior Galleries (11 June 1986), lot 1846; Numismatic Fine Arts XVI (2 December 1985), lot 422.