CNG 99, Lot: 490. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 12.18 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT KAI A-NTωNINOC C, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMARX · ЄΞ VΠAT TO Δ, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak, on garlanded altar; K in right field. Prieur 1307 var. (bust type). Good VF, some porosity, flaw on brow. Prieur knew of only four examples with this reverse type. Possibly unpublished with drapery and cuirass.

From the same obverse die as the following lot.