447, Lot: 293. Estimate $150. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 11.48 g, 6h). 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; Λ to right of Shamash. Prieur 965 (this coin). Toned. EF. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Reportedly ex Nomisma FPL (February 1985), no. 15.