453, Lot: 301. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.21 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation(?). Struck AD 219-222. AVT K M A [ANTΩNЄINOC] CЄB, laureate bust right, slight drapery / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ [YΠATOC TO B], eagle standing facing, head right tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ and Є above wings; six-rayed star between legs. Cf. McAlee 761 (for official issue); cf. Prieur (Antioch: Carrhae Issues) 254 (same). Find patina, some porosity, traces of green. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.