447, Lot: 290. Estimate $150. Sold for $244. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.06 g, 11h). 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; pellet to either side of eagle’s neck. Prieur 1022 (this coin); Van Hoof, “Zur syrischen Tetradrachmenprägung der römischen Kaiserzeit. Ein neuer Schatzfund,” (JNG 1986, Band XXXVI), pp. 107-126, no. 119 (this coin). Lightly toned, some minor porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.