447, Lot: 276. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 12.96 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; A beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 956 (this coin). Lustrous with a touch of porosity, flan a little tight. EF. Very rare, eight noted by Prieur, and four in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Auctiones 16 (1 October 1986), lot 219.