RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 319. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.89 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1487 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 427 (this coin illustrated); RPC III 3512/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, none in CoinArchives, and two specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Waddell FPL 48 (October 1990), lot 66.