Rare Aelia Capitolina Tetradrachm

282, Lot: 212. Estimate $150. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 10.32 g, 11h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head left, on filleted thyrsus, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; vine leaf between legs. Meshorer, Aelia 95 (same obv. die as illustration); Prieur 1617 (same obv.die as illustration). VF, dark find patina, irregular flan. Rare.