Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 421. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.08 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; carriage of Astarte between legs. Prieur 1364 (this coin). Good VF, toned, a touch of porosity, reverse metal flaw. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Christie’s (New York, 24 June 1992), lot 333.