Triton XXII, Lot: 749. Estimate $300. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Carrhae. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.27 g, 6h). AVT K M ΟΠ CЄ MAKPINOC CЄ, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ [VΠ]ATOC, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star to upper left, crescent between legs, two pellets in exergue. Prieur 836; Bellinger 168. EF, lightly toned.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 718; Sotheby’s (22 March 1990), lot 86 (part of).