443, Lot: 344. Estimate $200. Sold for $557. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 14.20 g, 6h). Struck AD 112. Laureate head of Trajan right, set on eagle standing right; club to left / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding grain ears and poppy heads with right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right, head left. Prieur 1499 (Tyre, this coin); McAlee 471; RPC III 3543/15 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, toned, flatly struck in places.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Burgan VSO (24 May 1986), lot 403.