449, Lot: 330. Estimate $150. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.42 g, 5h). Struck AD 114-115. AYTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOC API CEB ΓEPM ΔAK, 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. Prieur 1502 var. (obv. legend; Tyre); McAlee p. 406, 474A (this coin cited and illustrated); RPC III 3558 var. (same). Toned. VF. Extremely rare obverse legend variety.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.