Prieur Plate Coin
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XIX

445, Lot: 368. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 13.27 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined torch right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, bull’s head right. Prieur 1676 (this coin); Sofaer –. VF, lightly toned, some porosity, weakly struck in areas. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts [XIX] Winter Mail Bid Sale (18 December 1987), lot 831.