447, Lot: 307. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 12.52 g, 12h). 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; O beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1004A (this coin). Lightly toned, lustrous, flan crack. EF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Elsen 36 (17 September 1994), lot 495.

The last three letters of the reverse legend, TO∆, have been recut as ΠΠ, most likely indicating the mint was reusing a die from Caracalla’s reign.