443, Lot: 427. Estimate $300. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.82 g, 12h). Struck AD 213-215. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on club right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; murex shell between legs. Prieur 1549 (cf. second engraver illustrated). Near EF, lightly toned with underlying luster, deposit on the reverse.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex RARCOA (CICF, 15 March 1985), lot 138.