453, Lot: 308. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.89 g, 12h). Struck AD 241-244. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; below, crescent above ram leaping left, head right. Prieur 291 (this coin); McAlee 876. Toned, light porosity, reverse struck slightly off center. Good VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.