453, Lot: 432. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.43 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined torch right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1659A; Sofaer –. Toned, minor porosity. Good VF. Very rare, only one known to Prieur, and eight in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Amphora FPL 95 (May 2009), no. 108.