453, Lot: 348. Estimate $100. Sold for $202. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 12.09 g, 6h). Uncertain officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing left on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 568 (this coin); McAlee 1128f; RPC IX –. Toned with underlying luster. Good VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.