Ex Prieur, Levante, and Mabbott Collections

441, Lot: 364. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Didrachm (22mm, 5.01 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Caracalla standing facing, head right, holding spear, being crowned by Demiourgia standing facing, head left. Prieur 804 = SNG Levante 1040 (this coin); SNG BN –. VF, toned, rough surfaces. Extremely rare, only one specimen, this coin, known to Prieur, and one specimen, this coin, on CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Edoardo Levante Collection (Part III, Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 1185; Numismatic Fine Arts II (25 March 1976), lot 444; Thomas O. Mabbott Collection (Hans M. F. Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 2222.