453, Lot: 209. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm (24.5mm, 8.74 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on throne, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus, radiate(?), swimming left; throne decorated with sphinx; all within pelleted border; c/m: laureate and draped bust right of Caracalla(?) within oval incuse. Prieur 761 for coin & 777 for countermarked issue; SNG Levante 998 var. (obv. legend); SNG BN 1401; RPC III 3262/13 (this coin cited); for c/m: Howgego 843. Toned, a few scratches, light deposits. Good Fine, c/m: VF. Prieur places these issues under Caracalla.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 951.