453, Lot: 426. Estimate $100. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.83 g, 6h). MAP OП ANTWNINOC K •, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC П П, eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; altar between legs; palm frond in upper right field. Prieur –, but cf. Prieur 1326 (Macrinus; for rev.). Lightly toned, porosity, small flan crack. Near VF. None known to Prieur, none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 899.