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447, Lot: 242. Estimate $200.
Sold for $254. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYRRHESTICA, Beroea. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.24 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, winged animal flanked by B-Є. Prieur 884 (this coin); Van Hoof, “Zur syrischen Tetradrachmenprägung der römischen Kaiserzeit. Ein neuer Schatzfund,” (JNG 1986, Band XXXVI), pp. 107-126, no. 91 (this coin–illustrated on pl. 15). Lightly toned, light porosity. Good VF.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.