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ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Trajan Tetradrachm - Eagle on Thunderbolt (Prieur 1487 this coin)
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AR Tetradrachm
Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria, 98-99 AD
14.98g
Obv: Laureate head of Trajan (R), wearing ornate ceremonial aegis.
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Rev: Eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head right and wings spread, with wreath in beak.
ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ B
McAlee 427 (this coin); RPC 3512/1 (this coin); Prieur 1487 (Tyre, this coin)
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)
Roma Numismatics Auction XVIII, Lot 760, 29/09/19
ex. Michel Prieur Collection
ex. Edward J. Waddell Ltd., Fixed Price List 48, October 1990, lot 66.
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