Triton XXII, Lot: 708. Estimate $750. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 12.02 g, 12h). AV KAI MAP ΟΠ ANTωNINOC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATO A, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak, atop bull reclining right. Prieur 1252 (this coin illustrated); Bellinger 247. VF, toned, faint porosity. Extremely rare, 1 of only 2 cited by Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 469 (August 1984), no. 71.