Watch List notes:

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.99 g, 6h). 'Alexandrian style'. Dated RY 12 (AD 108/109). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion's skin tied around neck; L IB (date) below. Prieur 1524 (Tyre; this coin); McAlee 456; RPC III 3530/5 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned with areas of find patina, light scratches. Very rare, only six known to Prieur, three in CoinArchives, and nine specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI (18 March 1993), lot 591.