453, Lot: 364. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.10 g, 6h). 7th officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, with both pteryges visible; Z below / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Z between legs, S C in exergue. Prieur 655; McAlee 1175 (this coin illustrated); RPC IX 1813/9 (this coin cited). Toned, minor porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare, five known to Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.