453, Lot: 259. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Titus. As Caesar, AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.81 g, 12h). Dated “Holy Year” 3 (AD 70/71). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / IEPOY ETOY[Σ Γ] (date), eagle standing left on caduceus, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak, bow and quiver over left wing; club to left. Prieur 142 (this coin); McAlee 381/1 (this coin illustrated); RPC II 1969/2 (this coin cited). Toned, a few light marks and scratches. Near VF. Extremely rare, four known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection; Empire Coins 5 (5 May 1986), lot 128; Rauch 32 (16 January 1984), lot 640.