453, Lot: 356. 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 (26.5mm, 13.13 g, 12h). 7th officina. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; Z (retrograde) below / Eagle standing left on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 602 (this coin); McAlee 1135g; RPC IX 1767/2 = 4 (this coin cited twice in error); Bland, “Six Hoards of Syrian Tetradrachms of the Third Century AD,” (The Numismatic Chronicle 1991), p. 29, no. 82 (this coin–illustrated on pl. 11). Toned, porous and rough surfaces. VF. Extremely rare, four known to Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.