Unpublished

CNG 96, Lot: 651. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Cyrrhestica. Cyrrhus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.35 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Radiate and cuirassed bust left, raising right hand, spear and shield over left shoulder / Small eagle standing facing on filleted thyrsus, head and tail right, with wings spread, supporting laureate head of Caracalla right. Prieur – (but see 915 for same obv. die, standard eagle rev.). VF, porosity. Unpublished and possibly unique double portrait type.

Numerous mints, including Edessa, Heliopolis, Damascus, Aradus, Byblus, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem) and Neapolis, issued double portrait tetradrachms under Caracalla, with the reverse portrait supported by or suspended over an eagle standing facing or to right. This appears to be the first such coin to appear for Cyrrhus.