An Important Offering of Tetradrachms of Aelia Capitolina

CNG 99, Lot: 502. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.48 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX EΞ VΠATOC Δ, eagle standing facing on filleted thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; vine leaf between legs. Meshorer 95 var.; Prieur 1617 var.; Bellinger 349 var.; Sofaer 82-3 var. (all with different rev. legend). Good VF, thin flan crack. A variety unpublished in the standard references.

From the same obverse die as the two following lots.