Triton XXII, Lot: 678. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.96 g, 12h). Struck AD 212-213. AVT KAI ANTΩNЄINOC CЄ, radiate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Γ, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur & Amandry Group V, 57; McAlee, Severan, Group V, 39; Prieur 1177 (this coin illustrated). Superb EF, toned. One of only 5 examples cited by Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 284.