Triton XXII, Lot: 748. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Carrhae. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.91 g, 12h). AVT K M ΟΠ CЄ MAKPINOC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC, eagle standing facing on bull’s head flanked by pellets, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 827; Bellinger 165. Choice EF, toned, reverse double struck.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Ceresio 3 (3 October 1992), lot 359; Numismatica Ars Classica 2 (21 February 1990), lot 740.