453, Lot: 446. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 12.51 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine with pediment. Prieur 858. Toned, some minor porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only one noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung 70 (30 May 2006), lot 74.