CNG 85, Lot: 669. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.05 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing right, head and tail left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, god, wearing calathus, standing facing, holding whip and thunderbolt; on either side, bull standing facing. Rouvier -; Bellinger -; Prieur 1211. EF, reverse slightly off-center. Very rare.