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Lot 497

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 750 GBP
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Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck AD 98-99. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ, laureate head right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β, eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1488 (this coin [Tyre]); McAlee 428; RPC 3514/3 (this coin cited). 14.71g, 29mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine; vivid iridescent tone. Very Rare, only two known to Prieur, two in CoinArchives, and eight specimens cited by the authors of RPC, including this coin.

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 cited in A. Burnett, M. Amandry, Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. III (London, 2015);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group - Numismatica Ars Classica - Freeman & Sear, Triton I, 2 December 1997, lot 705.
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