239, Lot: 351. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.88 g, 12h). Dated Cos. III (AD 208-212), but probably struck circa AD 212. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head right, on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, holding wreath in beak; palm to right. McAlee 675; Prieur 215. VF, light porosity. Very rare - only five recorded by Prieur.