443, Lot: 399. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 14.23 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin-entwined trident right. Prieur 1294. VF, toned, struck slightly off center, graffito to right of eagle’s head. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.