451, Lot: 336. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 11.00 g, 7h). 1st officina. Struck AD 249. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; • below / Eagle standing right on palm frond, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. Prieur 504; McAlee 1105a. Slightly over cleaned with hairlines scratches and light porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.