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453, Lot: 260. Estimate $100.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.48 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. McAlee 426; Prieur 1486 (Tyre); RPC III 3511/5 (this coin cited). Toned, green deposits, scratches on obverse. VF. Very rare, only five known to Prieur, three in CoinArchives, and nine specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 249 (9 February 2011), lot 269.