182, Lot: 153. Estimate $100. Sold for $94. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.06 g). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head turned left, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate and draped bust of Shamash left. Prieur 972. Good Fine, toned, lightly porous. Unusually severe style, perhaps an ancient imitation.