Artistic Portrait

365, Lot: 287. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.49 g). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, with gorgoneion on breast / Eagle standing facing, head turned left, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur 1151. Superb EF, sharply struck, finely styled dies.

An exceptional coin struck from one of the finest obverse dies in the entire Syrian tetradrachm series.