342, Lot: 465. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.25 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagles standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; H below eagle’s head; between legs, radiate and draped bust of Shamash left. Prieur 988 (same dies; citing 6). EF, obverse die break, deposit and metal flaw on reverse.

From the Collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Superior, 28 December 1989.