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447, Lot: 392. Estimate $150.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.35 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine with pediment. Prieur 857 var. (rev. legend). Lustrous, minor pitting and deposits. EF. Extremely rare, Prieur did not own this example when he published his book, and one, this coin, in CoinArchives (and also only one example of Prieur 857 in CoinArchives).


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Peus 409 (25 April 2013), lot 811 (cataloged as Prieur 856).