398, Lot: 448. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.42 g, 12h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; three grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin entwined around trident right. Prieur 1302. VF, minor porosity, some deposits on reverse. Extremely rare and possibly the only in private hands.

Only one known to Prieur (unillustrated, but cited as in the collection of Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), and none in CoinArchives.