445, Lot: 366. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 12.35 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; between legs, pellet in annulet. Prieur 1672; Sofaer –. VF, toned, porosity. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection; Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 1041.