Watch List notes:

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tridrachm (23.5mm, 11.17 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate head right / Laureate bust of Melqart-Hercules right, with lion's skin tied around neck. Prieur 1479 (Tyre); McAlee 475 (this coin cited and illustrated); RPC III 3563/3 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned with areas of find patina, reverse struck off center. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, one in CoinArchives, and three specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Ofek A. Coins Ltd., January 2007.