447, Lot: 369. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COELESYRIA, Heliopolis. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 11.86 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, lion advancing right. Prieur 1201 (this coin). Toned with underlying luster. EF. Extremely rare, only five noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Reportedly ex Poindessault (December 1993), lot 133; Poindessault (June 1986), lot 165.