Unpublished Variety

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1135. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $3650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (12.91 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing right on serpent-entwined torch, head left, holding wreath inscribed S P Q R in displayed wings; date in legend. Prieur 1657 var. (bust type); otherwise unpublished. Good VF. An unpublished variety of an extremely rare type.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.