Trajan AR Tridrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 100. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙΣ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞΥΠΑΤ Γ, laureate bust of Melqart-Hercules right, with lion's skin tied around neck. Prieur 1483 (this coin [Tyre]); McAlee 476A; RPC 3567/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). 11.26g, 24mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine; light cabinet tone. Very Rare; only eight known to Prieur, four in CoinArchives, and two 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 and illustrated in A. Burnett, M. Amandry, Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. III (London, 2015);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Amphora Coins, FPL 44, Autumn 1990, lot 245.