453, Lot: 344. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 10.50 g, 6h). 6th officina. Laureate and cuirassed bust right; ς below / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; pellet between legs, S C in exergue. Prieur 563 (this coin); McAlee 1146c; RPC IX 1782/3 (this coin cited); Bland, “Six Hoards of Syrian Tetradrachms of the Third Century AD,” (The Numismatic Chronicle 1991), p. 29, no. 106 (this coin–illustrated on pl. 11). Toned, some porosity. VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.