Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIX 26-27 Mar 2020
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Commodus, as Caesar, AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 179. AVT KAIC KOMMOΔOC CЄB, laureate head right / ΓЄP CAP ΔHM ЄΞ Δ VΠAT B, eagle with wings spread and head to right standing facing on leg and thigh of animal, ram's head to left; star between legs. Prieur 168 (this coin) = McAlee 636 (this coin) = RPC Online 7172.1 (this coin, temporary). 13.50g, 28mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine; minor contact at 12 o'clock obv., light cabinet tone. Unique.
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 at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Richard McAlee Collection, Empire Coins, Auction 5, 5 May 1986, lot 131.
Extremely Fine; minor contact at 12 o'clock obv., light cabinet tone. Unique.
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 at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Richard McAlee Collection, Empire Coins, Auction 5, 5 May 1986, lot 131.