451, Lot: 300. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.95 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 202-204. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread. Prieur 186; McAlee 658. Toned, some minor porosity, a few light scratches. Good VF. Very rare, only eight known to Prieur, and four in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Lanz 92 (4 June 1999), lot 780.