453, Lot: 314. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Philip I. AD 244-249. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 11.23 g, 5h). Struck AD 247. Radiate and cuirassed bust left / Eagle standing left, wings spread with right wing behind leg, head right and holding wreath in beak; ANTIOXIA/S C in two lines in exergue. Prieur 359 (this coin); McAlee 917. Lightly toned, porous. Good VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none, correctly attributed, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.