443, Lot: 408. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.26 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; altar between legs. Prieur 1320 (this coin). Good VF, toned with underlying luster, a few minor deposits, compact flan. Very rare, only seven known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 748; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 461 (November/December 1983), lot 83.