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447, Lot: 282. Estimate $150.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.05 g, 6h). 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 984. Lightly toned with underlying luster, obverse struck slightly off center. EF. Extremely rare, only four noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Summer 1993 BBS (9 September 1993), lot 501.