453, Lot: 339. Estimate $100. Sold for $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 13.07 g, 12h). 6th officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; ς below / Eagle standing left on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 533; McAlee 1116f (this coin illustrated); RPC IX 1663/6 (this coin cited). Toned, minor porosity, die break on obverse edge. Good VF. Very rare, five known to Prieur, and five in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection.