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443, Lot: 419. Estimate $300.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 12.27 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; carriage of Astarte between legs. Prieur 1362 var. (rev. legend). EF, lightly toned with underlying luster, minor striking weakness on reverse, a few spots of verdigris.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Carlo Fontana Collection (Finarte Casa D’Aste 995, 26 November 1996), lot 1063, purchased from C. Crippa, 1966.