451, Lot: 283. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.73 g, 12h). Dated “New Holy Year” 1 (AD 69). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ETOYΣ NEOY IEPOY A, eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm frond to right. Prieur 103 (this coin); McAlee 324; RPC II 1936. Lightly toned, scratches in fields. VF. Very rare, four known to Prieur, and four in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from David Hendin.