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453, Lot: 304. Estimate $100.
Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.66 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation(?). Struck AD 219-222. ΛVT K M Λ [ΛNTΩNЄINOC CЄB], laureate bust right, slight drapery / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ [YΠATOC TO B], eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ and Є above wings; eight-rayed star between legs. Cf. McAlee 758 (for official issue); cf. Prieur (Antioch: ‘Laodicea Issues’) 257 (same). Toned, light porosity. VF.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.