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E-Sale 65  19 Dec 2019
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Lot 580

Estimate: 750 GBP
Price realized: 1300 GBP
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Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 98-117. AD 98-99. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙΣ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ, laureate bust right, slight drapery / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β, eagle standing facing on palm frond, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1492 (Tyre); McAlee 436 (this coin illustrated); RPC III 3522/1 (this coin cited). 15.39g, 27mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine; area of dark patina. Extremely Rare - only two known to Prieur, two in CoinArchives, and four specimens cited by the authors of 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 cited in A. Burnett, M. Amandry, Roman Provincial Coinage, Vol. III (London, 2015);
This coin illustrated in R. McAlee, The Coins of Roman Antioch (Lancaster, 2007);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXIV, Autumn/Winter 1999, no. 104;
Ex Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 96, 7 June 1999, lot 380.
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