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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 760

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 3200 GBP
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Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 98/9. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right, aegis on left shoulder / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ B, eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head right, with wreath in beak, wings spread. McAlee 427 (this coin); RPC 3512/1 (this coin); Prieur 1487 (Tyre, this coin). 14.91g, 27mm, 7h.

Near Extremely Fine; light cabinet tone. Extremely Rare; only two examples known to Prieur and RPC, including this example.

This coin published in M. Prieur, A Type Corpus of The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and Their Fractions from 57 BC to AD 253 (Lancaster, 2000);
This coin published in R. McAlee, The Coins of Roman Antioch (Lancaster, 2007);
This coin published in A. Burnett, M. Amandry, I. Carradice, Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. II (London and Paris, 1999);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Edward J. Waddell Ltd., Fixed Price List 48, October 1990, lot 66.
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