CNG 99, Lot: 510. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.35 g, 1h). M OΠΛ (sic) [ANT ΔIAΔIM]INIANOC (sic), bareheaded and draped bust right / ΔHMAPX EΞ [V]ΠATOC Π Π, eagle standing facing on thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar between legs, grape bunch in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references with grape bunch in exergue. Near VF, porous surfaces.

The obverse die is the same as the coin plated for Meshorer 98 and Prieur 1648. Both authors read the obverse legend as beginning M OΠHΛ.