453, Lot: 338. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.88 g, 6h). 5th officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; ••••• below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 532 (this coin); McAlee 1113e; RPC IX 1661. Lightly toned, light porosity, deposits, graffiti in right obverse field. Good VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.