449, Lot: 374. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.09 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crude six-pointed star between legs; Δ Є across fields. Cf. Prieur 1735. Some roughness. Good VF. Extremely rare, this coin was not part of the Prieur collection at the time of his book’s publication.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Walter Holt, 2003.