443, Lot: 359. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.75 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, pilei of the Dioscuri. Prieur 1224. VF, toned, small obverse metal flaw. Extremely rare, only four known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives. Prieur states in his catalog that the obverse engraver for this coin “is the same as that of Antioch no. 218”.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 134 (11 October 2004), lot 2184.