CNG 100, Lot: 1767. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Caracalla. 198-217 CE. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.38 g, 6h). Struck 215-217 CE. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC T Δ, eagle standing facing on filleted thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar between legs. Meshorer 89a var. (rev. legend); Prieur 1626-8 var. (same); Bellinger –; Sofaer 80 var. (same). Good VF, obverse die a bit worn, graffiti in obverse field. Very rare.

Struck from an obverse die that is very similar to CNG 99, lot 506. The reverses are essentially the same, save for the wine jars, which are rendered quite differently. The style of the wine jar on the current coin is closer to Prieur 1630.