453, Lot: 332. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Philip II. AD 247-249. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 11.88 g, 6h). Struck AD 248-249. Radiate and cuirassed bust left, gorgoneion on breastplate / Eagle standing right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; ANTIOXIA/S C in two lines in exergue. Prieur 465 corr. (with gorgoneion but not balteus); McAlee 1057 (this coin illustrated). Toned, porosity. VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.