444, Lot: 291. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 12.99 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 214-215. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail left, with wings spread and holding wreath in beak. McAlee 678 var. (animal leg left); Prieur 220 var. (same). VF, some porosity, a bit of copper oxide deposits on the edge. Very rare.