451, Lot: 285. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.58 g, 1h). Dated “New Holy Year” 1 (AD 69). Laureate head right / Eagle standing left on club, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left. Prieur 134 (this coin); McAlee 355; RPC II 1970. Lightly toned, graffito in right obverse field. VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Cisjordania Hoard I, no. 302 (1996).