449, Lot: 324. Estimate $75. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. Fourrée Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.65 g, 6h). Copying an official issue struck AD 110-111. 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. Cf. Prieur 1498 (Tyre; for official issue); cf. McAlee 470 (for official issue); RPC III 3540.36 (this coin). Plating broken in spots, a few scratches. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.