447, Lot: 295. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.26 g, 6h). 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. Prieur 972 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster. Good VF.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Superior Galleries (1 December 1990), lot 2497.