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436, Lot: 344. Estimate $500.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYRRHESTICA, Hierapolis. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 10.78 g, 12h). AVT K M ΟΠ CЄ MAKPЄINO[C], laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX Є-Ξ VΠATOC, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, lion advancing right. Prieur –; Bellinger –. Good VF, toned, flan crack. An unusual portrait style for Hierapolis, and possibly unrecorded with this obverse legend.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Roma 4 (30 September 2012), lot 2348.