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453, Lot: 343. 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, 12.83 g, 6h). 5th officina. Laureate and cuirassed bust right; ••••• below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 561 (this coin); McAlee 1129; RPC IX 1750/2 (this coin cited); Bland, “Six Hoards of Syrian Tetradrachms of the Third Century AD,” (The Numismatic Chronicle 1991), p. 28, no. 76 (this coin–illustrated on pl. 11). Lightly toned, porosity. VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.