296, Lot: 172. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.60 g, 6h). 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, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; palm to right. McAlee 675; Prieur 215. Near EF, minor porosity. Very rare – only five recorded by Prieur.