445, Lot: 351. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 11.48 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on vine branch with three bunches of grapes, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar between legs. Prieur 1633; Meshorer, Aelia –; Sofaer –. VF, toned, some porosity and roughness. Very rare, only five known to Prieur, and six in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.