Extremely Rare Date – Cited in DCA

447, Lot: 156. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKIS and PIERIA, Laodikeia. 78/7-16/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.19 g, 12h). Dated year 17 of the Caesarian Era (32/1 BC). Veiled, draped, and turreted bust of Tyche right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; IOYΛIEΩN TΩN KAI ΛAOΔIKEΩN to outer left and right, ZI (date) and ME to inner left; ΔI below throne, ΛY in exergue; all within wreath. Mørkholm, Autonomous –; RPC I 4380 var. (unlisted date); HGC 9, 1402 var. (same); DCA 568 (this coin cited); Prieur –. Toned, some roughness, slightly off center on obverse. VF. Extremely rare date, only this coin listed in CoinArchives, and this was the only example known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex G. J. Sch. Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 32, 26 May 2010), lot 303.