453, Lot: 349. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 13.59 g, 6h). 2nd officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; •• below / Eagle standing left on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 571A (this coin); McAlee 1128b; RPC IX 1702/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). Toned with find patina, deposits. Good VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.