436, Lot: 370. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Seleucia Pieria. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.82 g, 6h). AVT K M ΟΠ CЄ MAKPINOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATO, eagle standing facing on thunderbolt with handle, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1190 (
this coin illustrated); Bellinger 78. Good VF, toned, light porosity.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Winter Mail Bid Sale (14 December 1989), lot 1161; Numismatic Fine Arts VI (27 February 1979), lot 787.