Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 815. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (10.45 g, 12h). Struck AD 219. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Eagle standing facing on ground line, head left, tail right, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; Δ Є above wings, star between legs. McAlee p. 292, note 169; Prieur 277. VF, uneven toning, flan crack. Rare.