From the Gait Collection
Pedigreed to 1983

445, Lot: 357. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 14.90 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined torch right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1659; Sofaer –. EF, lightly toned, a few spots of verdigris, underlying luster.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 630; Auctiones AG 16 (1 October 1986), lot 258; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 475 (March 1985), lot 32; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 461 (November/December 1983), lot 88.