Triton XXII, Lot: 747. Estimate $300. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Carrhae. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.81 g, 6h). AVT K M ΟΠ MAKPINOC C-ЄB, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC, eagle standing facing on bull’s head flanked by pellets, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 824; Bellinger 163. EF, lightly toned, red deposits on reverse.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 600; RARCOA (15 March 1985), lot 146.