Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 675. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2505. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (13.98 g, 12h). Laureate head right / ΔHMAPX • ЄΞ YΠATO TO Δ, eagle standing facing on ground line, head and tail left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin-entwined trident right. Prieur 1294/1295 corr. (obv./rev.); Bellinger 281 var. and corr. (bust type; same rev. die). Good VF. Very rare.