435, Lot: 270. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.11 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right above a large crescent moon / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crescent between legs. Prieur 1286. VF, lightly toned, faint graffito in right obverse field, some granularity. Rare, with only two examples cited by Prieur.