Ex Prieur, Fontana, and Woodward Collections

443, Lot: 328. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tridrachm (22.5mm, 11.18 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate head right / Draped bust right of Baal-Zeus, wearing tall headdress (calathus?); holding statuette of bull(?) and thunderbolt. Prieur – (Tyre); McAlee 477; RPC III 3564/11 (this coin cited). VF, toned, a few deposits. Rare, Prieur did not own this example when he published his book, four in CoinArchives, and twenty-two specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 47 (3 June 2008), lot 46 (part of); Carlo Fontana Collection (Finarte Casa D’Aste 995, 26 November 1996), lot 874; Arthur M. Woodward Collection (Glendining & Co., 27 September 1962), lot 385.