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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Erhan, post: 3550611, member: 104070&quot;]Trajan is my favorite emperor . As I collect Persian coins, I like roman emperors who has interaction (mostly war and sometimes peace ) with Persians and Trajan was one of those who tried to beat Parthians without much success.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]943561[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. <i>Trajan. </i></b>AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.18 g, 6h). Struck AD 98-99. Laureate head of Trajan right, set on eagle standing right; palm frond to upper left, club to right / Laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion’s skin tied around neck. Prieur 1477 (Tyre); McAlee 450; RPC III 3523/14 (<i>this coin cited and illustrated</i>). Good VF, toned with areas of find patina.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Cisjordania Hoard I, no. 278 (1996).</i></p><p><br /></p><p>RPC plate coin, Ex CNG</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]943562[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>CILICIA, Tarsus. <i>Trajan. </i></b>AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.52 g, 12h). Struck AD 103-111. Laureate head right; c/m: laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right of Commodus(?); K before; all within oval incuse / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond with right hand; below, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus swimming right; civic monogram to right. Prieur 758; cf. SNG Levante 991; cf. SNG BN 1393-4; RPC III 3257; for countermark: Howgego 842. Near VF, toned, some porosity; c/m is Fine. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and one on CoinArchives.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 214 (15 February 2001), lot 1706.</i></p><p>Ex-CNG[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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