453, Lot: 235. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.48 g, 12h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 25 of the Caesarean Era (25/24 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, KE (date) and [thunderbolt] in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 18; McAlee 18 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 4141; SC 2491.15; HGC 9, 1360o. Toned, minor roughness. Fine. Extremely rare, four known to Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.