443, Lot: 430. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Geta. AD 209-211. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.13 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, with gorgoneion on breastplate / Eagle standing facing on club right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; murex shell between legs. Prieur 1539 (this coin). EF, lightly toned, light scratches in right obverse field. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Lucien Birkler, 1991.