Prieur Plate Coin

451, Lot: 290. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 15.36 g, 12h). Dated “Holy Year” 3 (AD 70/1). Laureate head right; lituus below chin / [IEPOV] ETOVΣ Γ, eagle standing left on club, with wings spread; palm frond to left. Prieur 114 (this coin); McAlee 337; RPC II 1948. Lightly toned, a few light scratches, reverse struck slightly off center. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Cisjordania Hoard I, no. 152 (1996).