453, Lot: 285. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 12.98 g, 5h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; · Δ · · Є · flanking head. Prieur 246B (this coin); McAlee 722, note 152. Toned, some roughness, a couple light scratches. Good VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.