182, Lot: 196. Estimate $150. Sold for $368. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.38 g). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head turned right, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine. Prieur 1712 (same obverse die). VF, light porosity.

Prieur includes this type in his section of “atypical coins” and suggests that it may have been minted at an unofficial production site in or near Edessa