CNG 97, Lot: 536. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.63 g, 6h). AVT · K M OΠЄΛ · C · MAK[PINOC] CЄB, laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar between legs, grape bunch in exergue. Meshorer, Aelia 96a var. (obv. legend; same rev. die); Prieur 1640-1 var. (same). VF, lightly toned, porosity, flan crack. A seemingly unpublished variety of a very rare type.