449, Lot: 317. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.18 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1489A (Tyre; this coin cited and illustrated); McAlee 429; RPC III 3515.3 (this coin). Toned, graffiti in reverse field. Near VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prier, and four specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.