309, Lot: 171. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.38 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 63/4). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ETOVΣ BIP • I, eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; • and palm frond to right. McAlee 264A; Prieur –; RPC I –. VF.

From the JMG Collection.

McAlee notes this variety lacking the pellet under the bust of Nero, but with a pellet to the right of eagle, is extremely rare.