436, Lot: 343. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYRRHESTICA, Hierapolis. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 9.69 g, 12h). [A]VT K M ΟΠЄΛ CЄ MAKPЄINOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, lion advancing right. Prieur 944; Bellinger 106. EF, toned, flatly struck in a few areas. An unusually light weight flan.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 742; Waddell FPL 50 (undated), no. 47; Elsen FPL 117 (July 1989), no. 46; Elsen FPL 113 (January 1989), no. 70; Münzen und Medaillen FPL (November/December 1987), no. 505; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 461 (November/December 1983), no. 77.