CNG 99, Lot: 509. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.90 g, 6h). AVT K · M OΠΛ (sic) · C · MAKPINOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar between legs, ivy leaf in exergue. Prieur 1643 var. = Bellinger 359 var. (obv. legend); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, a few faint scratches in field on obverse. Extremely rare variety.