Triton XXII, Lot: 657. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.56 g, 6h). Struck AD 205-207. AVT KAI CЄOVHPOC CЄ, laureate and draped bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC Γ, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread; star between legs. Prieur & Amandry Group I, 2 (this coin illustrated on pl. XIV); McAlee, Severan, Group I, 4; Prieur 1117 (this coin illustrated). EF, attractively toned. Very rare.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Sternberg XIV (24 May 1984), lot 371.