194, Lot: 163. Estimate $100. Sold for $596. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.76 g, 6h). Struck AD 217-218. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head left, holding wreath in beak; H below beak; between legs, radiate and draped bust of Shamash left. Prieur 991. VF, light porosity, deposits on the reverse. Rare. Only one specimen of this variety cited by Prieur.