RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 318. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.45 g, 7h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1486 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 426; RPC III 3511/4 (this coin cited and illustrated). Near VF, toned, some light scratches. Very rare, only five known to Prieur, three in CoinArchives, and nine specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 67 (2 May 1994), lot 483.