453, Lot: 403. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DECAPOLIS, Gadara. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.80 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT KAI • ANTWNI [NOC] CЄB, laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, the Three Graces within wreath. Prieur 1588 var. (obv. legend). Lightly toned, some porosity. VF. Extremely rare obverse legend, only two examples of reverse known to Prieur and one coin (CNG E-435, lot 264) in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.