Triton XXII, Lot: 737. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.25 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT KAI ANT-ωNINOC CЄ, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Δ, eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined torch, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; palm frond between eagle’s legs. Prieur 1670 (this coin illustrated); Bellinger 368; Sofaer –. Good VF, toned, some porosity. One of only 2 coins of this variety known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Elsen FPL 30 (March 1981), no. 48.