451, Lot: 332. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.47 g, 12h). Struck AD 245. Bareheaded and draped bust left / Eagle standing facing on palm frond, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 348; McAlee 1016/2 (this coin illustrated). Toned, some light porosity, some pitting on the portrait. Good VF. Extremely rare, four known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.