RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 346. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.67 g, 6h). Struck AD 112/113. Laureate head of Trajan right, set on eagle standing right; club to left / Laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion’s skin tied around neck. Prieur 1517 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 462; RPC III 3547/11 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, toned, a few light scratches, extra metal (die rust) on Trajan’s nose.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münz Zentrum 67 (7 November 1989), lot 1676; Münz Zentrum 66 (26 April 1989), lot 624; Münz Zentrum 65 (9 November 1988), lot 317.