453, Lot: 261. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.03 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing facing on palm frond left, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. McAlee 433; Prieur 1491 (Tyre); RPC III 3518/2 (this coin cited). Toned, deposits on reverse. VF. Very rare, only one known to Prieur, two in CoinArchives, and four specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 122 (11 March 2003), lot 1885.