453, Lot: 318. Estimate $100. Sold for $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Philip I. AD 244-249. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.86 g, 6h). Struck AD 247. Radiate, draped, 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 379; McAlee 915/3 (this coin illustrated). Lightly toned with underlying luster, a touch of porosity. Near EF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.