Extremely Rare Variety - Perhaps Second Known

258, Lot: 273. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Philip I. AD 244-249. BI Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.28 g, 7h). Struck AD 248. Laureate and draped bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail to right, holding wreath in beak. McAlee 903 = Prieur 361 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare variety. Only one specimen cited by Prieur and McAlee.