443, Lot: 411. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.73 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; altar between legs, pellet within annulet in upper right field. Prieur 1328 (this coin). Near VF, toned, light porosity, a spot of verdigris on reverse. Very rare, only eight known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.