455, Lot: 233. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. temp. Sextus Julius Caesar. Proconsul, 47-46 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.41 g, 12h). In the name and types of the Seleucid king Philip I Philadelphus. Dated year 3 of the Caesarean Era (47/6 BC). Diademed head of Philip I right within fillet border / Zeus Nicephorus seated left; monogram to inner left and below throne, Γ (date) and thunderbolt in exergue; all within wreath. McAlee 4; Prieur 4; RPC I 4127; SC 2491.1; HGC 9, 1360a. Toned, some minor deposits. VF. Very rare, only two examples known to Prieur, and one to the authors of RPC.

From the J.B. Collection, purchased in Autumn 2004.