447, Lot: 286. Estimate $150. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.57 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; crescent beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1008 (this coin). Lustrous with some light porosity, weakly struck in a few places. EF. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.