Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 401. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.72 g, 11h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin-entwined trident right. Prieur 1299. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and one, this coin, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 834.