447, Lot: 394. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 12.67 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, with both shoulders visible / Eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine with pediment. Prieur 866 (this coin). Lightly toned, lustrous. EF. Very rare, only five noted by Prieur, and five in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Tkalec & Rauch (16 November 1987), lot 352; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 7 (27 April 1987), lot 920.