453, Lot: 256. Estimate $150. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.60 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 3 (AD 70/1). Laureate head right / Eagle standing left on club, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 136; McAlee 358; RPC II 1972. Toned, light roughness, scratches. VF. Extremely rare, five known to Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 104 (9 October 2000), lot 751.