139, Lot: 203. Estimate $150. Sold for $1618. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria, Emesa. Diadumenian. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.39 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / DHMARC EX UPATOC, eagle standing facing, head left; radiate bust of Shamash between legs. Prieur 1020. Near EF, underlying luster. Rare - only six specimens recorded by Prieur.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Ponterio 38 (1 November 1989), lot 254.