453, Lot: 423. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.03 g, 6h). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust with features of Caracalla right / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, altar; fillet in upper right field. Prieur 1330. Toned, porosity, small pit in obverse field. VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.