Triton XXII, Lot: 757. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.12 g, 6h). AV K M ΟΠЄΛ CЄ MAKPЄINOC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; shrine with pediment between legs. Prieur 866; Bellinger –. EF, lightly toned. Attractive bust type. Only 5 specimens recorded by Prieur, 4 in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 750; Classical Numismatic Auctions XVI (16 August 1991), lot 326; Ponterio 47 (8 March 1991), lot 1348; Tkalec & Rauch (14 April 1986), lot 366.