RPC Plate Coin

443, Lot: 337. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.48 g, 6h). Struck AD 109/110. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on club left, head and tail left, with wings spread; palm frond to right. Prieur 1503 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 438; RPC III 3535/6 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, lightly toned, light scratches in right obverse field. Very rare, only five known to Prieur, one in CoinArchives, and thirteen specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Cisjordania Hoard I, no. 46 (1996).