437, Lot: 283. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. temp. Mark Antony. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 14.78 g, 12h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 9 of the Caesarean Era (41/40 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, Θ (date) and thunderbolt in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 9; McAlee 9 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 4132; SC 2491.6; HGC 9, 1360f. Near VF, toned, minor porosity, a few light scratches. Rare, four examples known to Prieur, and four to the authors of RPC.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.