451, Lot: 322. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.31 g, 12h). Struck AD 241-244. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; below, crescent above ram leaping left, head right. Prieur 295; McAlee 872. Lightly toned with underlying luster, flan crack, a touch of porosity. Near EF.
From the Michel Prieur Collection.