453, Lot: 309. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.29 g, 12h). Struck AD 241-244. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; below, crescent above ram leaping right, head left. Prieur 302 (this coin); McAlee 874. Toned, light porosity, metal flaws. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.