453, Lot: 418. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.12 g, 11h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin-entwined trident right. Prieur 1300. Toned, a few deposits. Near VF. Extremely rare, five known to Prieur, one in CoinArchives (this coin).

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex J.-P. Righetti Collection (Part 8, Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 20, 10 October 2006), lot 803.