453, Lot: 398. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Caracalla. AD 198-217. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 6.42 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation(?). Struck circa AD 215-217. AVT K[...ANT]ΩNЄINO C CЄB, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠATOC TO Δ, eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ and Є above wings; eight-rayed star between legs. Prieur 1735C (this coin; ‘Atypical Coins: Laodicean Type’). Find patina, struck on a compact flan. Good VF. Apparently unique, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.