453, Lot: 310. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 10.75 g, 6h). Struck AD 241-244. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; below, crescent above ram leaping right, head left. Prieur 303; McAlee 882. Lightly toned, some light porosity, area of verdigris on the edge. Good VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 142 (10 October 2005), lot 3463 (part of).