447, Lot: 367. Estimate $200. Sold for $214. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COELESYRIA, Heliopolis. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.07 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, lion advancing right, star before. Prieur 1199 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster, a few minor deposits, compact flan. EF. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 461 (November/December 1983), lot 73.