453, Lot: 355. 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 (25mm, 12.04 g, 6h). 5th officina. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; ••••• below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 599 (this coin); McAlee 1134e; RPC IX 1751/8 (this coin cited). Toned, some roughness, minor deposit on obverse. VF. Very rare, ten known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.