Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1219. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (14.37 g, 12h). Struck AD 70/71. Laureate head right / Eagle standing left on club with wings displayed, no wreath in beak; palm to left. Prieur 113; R. McAlee, “Vespasian’s Syrian Provincial Coinage,” AJN 7-8, 13; RPC II 1947. VF, toned, very minor trace of porosity on obverse.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.