453, Lot: 335. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 10.60 g, 12h). 1st officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; • below / Eagle standing left on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 503; McAlee 1106a (this coin illustrated); RPC IX 1611/1 (this coin cited). Toned, light porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection.