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447, Lot: 317. Estimate $500.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254. BI Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 9.34 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Baldus 23; Prieur 1057; RPC IX 1890/2 (this coin cited). Corroded brown surfaces. Near VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and one, this coin, in CoinArchives. Three examples cited by the authors of RPC.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 258 (22 June 2011), lot 274 (since cleaned–hammer $2500).