453, Lot: 272. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Commodus. As Caesar, AD 166-177. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.46 g, 12h). Struck AD 179. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail left, with wings spread; ram’s head right above right wing, four-rayed star between legs. Prieur –; McAlee 642 (this coin illustrated); RPC IV.3 Online 7176/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). Toned, some light porosity, graffito in right obverse field. VF. Extremely rare, Prieur did not own this example when he published his book, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection.