CNG 99, Lot: 508. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.02 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT KAI ANT-ωNINOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on vine branch with three bunches of grapes, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar between legs. Meshorer 91 var. (legends); Prieur 1633 var. (obv. legend); Bellinger –; Sofaer 81 var. (legends). Near EF. An apparently unpublished variant of a rare type.