453, Lot: 246. Estimate $150. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian, with Titus as Caesar. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.94 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 2 (AD 69/70). Laureate head of Vespasian right / Laureate head of Titus right; star to left, barred B (date) to right. Prieur 106A (this coin); McAlee 328; RPC II 1940. Toned, some light roughness and scratches. Good Fine. Extremely rare, six known to Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Cisjordania Hoard I, no. 287 (1996).