Unique and Unpublished

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 687. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $5745. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Ascalon. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.03 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on palm, head left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; below, dove standing right, holding olive branch in beak. Prieur -; Bellinger -. Good VF, toned. Very rare and apparently unpublished.