252, Lot: 273. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.57 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation(?). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings displayed,holding wreath in beak; Δ-Є across upper field, star between legs. Cf. McAlee 763; cf. Prieur 265. Good VF, heavy black patina with earthen deposits. A stylistically unusual coin that does not fit with the other issues of Elagabalus from Antioch.