453, Lot: 340. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. BI Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 11.72 g, 12h). 7th officina. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; Z below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 535; McAlee 1113g (this coin illustrated); RPC IX 1671/2 (this coin cited and illustrated). Toned, minor porosity, a few patches of find patina. Good VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Richard McAlee Collection.