Extremely Rare Aelia Capitolina Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 865. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Roman Administration. Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Macrinus. CE 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (13.05 g, 12h). Struck CE 217-218. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on filleted thyrsus, head left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, vine leaf above wine jar. Prieur 1637; Meshorer, Aelia 97 (same obv. die). VF, very slight shift strike on obverse. Extremely rare.