453, Lot: 342. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 10.29 g, 10h). 3rd officina. Radiate and cuirassed bust right; ••• below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 552 (this coin); McAlee 1138b; RPC IX 1728/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). Find patina, minor roughness. VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.