453, Lot: 358. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Herennia Etruscilla. Augusta, AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.40 g, 12h). 5th officina. Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent; Є 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 623 (
this coin) = McAlee 1169a (
this coin illustrated) = RPC IX 1781/3 = 4 = 5 (
this coin cited three times in error). Toned, porous, edge splits. VF. Extremely rare, five known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Paul-Francis Jacquier FPL 14 (Autumn 1992), no. 296.