CNG 93, Lot: 984. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.82 g, 7h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings displayed; between legs, The Charites (the Three Graces) standing within wreath. Prieur 1602A; Staal, p. 145, Macrinus 1, first example, and Three Graces or Nymphs in Miniature Plate 3 (this coin). VF, find patina. Rare.

From the Mark Staal Collection of The Three Graces. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 31 (9 September 1994), lot 1321.