447, Lot: 329. Estimate $200. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.98 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 208-209. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, with trabea, gorgoneion on breastplate, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur 1151 (this coin). Toned, light porosity and/or roughness. Near EF. Well centered. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Rauch 52 (26 April 1994), lot 376.