RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 349. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 14.18 g, 6h). Struck AD 116. 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 1521 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 466; RPC III 3560/3 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned, porosity, reverse struck slightly off center. Very rare, only two known to Prieur, two in CoinArchives, and four specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 33 (3 June 1986), lot 400.