447, Lot: 325. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 12.77 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 205-207. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread; star between legs. Prieur 1116 (this coin). Toned, light scratches in right obverse field. Good VF. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 48 (2 April 1990), lot 576.