453, Lot: 305. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 9.77 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation. Struck AD 219-222. ΛVT K [...]ΛNO[...] CЄB, laureate bust right, slight drapery / [...]OIOIO[...] ΛVΞ XI [...], eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; eight-rayed star between legs. Cf. Prieur (Antioch: ‘Unknown Engravers’) 278. Bright surfaces, trace of porosity. VF. Good metal. None known to Prieur, and only one (this coin) in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 822; Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 1108.