412, Lot: 378. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DECAPOLIS, Gadara. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.84 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation. ΛVT KΛI Λ-ωTΩNINOC Є, laureate head right, set on eagle / ΛHMAPX CΞ • VΠΛ • TO Λ, laureate head of Melqart-Hercules right, wearing lion’s skin; club before; below, the Three Graces within wreath. Cf. Prieur 1585; Sofaer –. VF, toned, roughness.

While Prieur noted a wide range of styles on the tetradrachms of Gadara, the especially crude engraving and blundered legends point to this being an unofficial issue.