443, Lot: 252. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. temp. Sextus Julius Caesar. Proconsul, 47-46 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.37 g, 12h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 3 of the Caesarean Era (47/6 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, Γ (date) and thunderbolt in exergue; all within wreath. Prieur 4; McAlee 4; RPC I 4127; SC 2491.1; HGC 9, 1360a. VF, toned. Very rare, only two examples known to Prieur, and one to the authors of RPC.