Extremely Rare – RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 336. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.56 g, 6h). ‘Alexandrian style’. Dated RY 12 (AD 108/109). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion’s skin tied around neck; L IB (date) below. Prieur 1523 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 457; RPC III 3531/3 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned with areas of find patina, light scratches. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, none in CoinArchives, and three specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Banias Hoard, no. 278 (as given by the authors of RPC).