453, Lot: 240. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 14.45 g, 1h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 33 of the Caesarean Era (17/16 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, ΓΛ (date) and [thunderbolt] in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 26; McAlee 27/1 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 4149; SC 2491.23; HGC 9, 1360x. Toned, light roughness, a few light scratches. Fine. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.