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447, Lot: 280. Estimate $100.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.41 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; H beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 982 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster, minor deposits on the reverse, edge split. Good VF. Extremely rare, only one noted by Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 738, purchased by him from Ed Waddell, November 1990.