453, Lot: 365. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. BI Tetradrachm (27mm, 11.16 g, 6h). 3rd officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; ••• below / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Γ between legs, S C in exergue. Prieur 660 (this coin); McAlee 1172c; RPC IX 1797/8 (this coin cited); Bland, “Six Hoards of Syrian Tetradrachms of the Third Century AD,” (The Numismatic Chronicle 1991), p. 29, no. 116. Toned, porosity, flan crack. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.