441, Lot: 333. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm (24.5mm, 10.01 g, 6h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Laureate Apollo, nude, standing left, holding filleted laurel branch over a garlanded altar at his feet, leaning on tripod with his left hand, drapery over his left arm and to right of tripod. Prieur 733A (same obv. die); SNG Levante –; SNG BN –. VF, lightly toned, flan crack, light scratches, a bit of porosity. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none on CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Nilus Coin, 2004.