Ex Gait Collection

436, Lot: 367. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (2827mm, 12.34 g, 12h). Officina A. AVT K M A ANTΩNЄINO-C CЄ-B, laureate bust right, slight drapery / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Δ, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; A to upper right; between legs, radiate bust of Shamash left. Prieur 960 (this coin); cf. Bellinger 187. Near EF, toned. A somewhat unconventional arrangement of the obverse legend, this coin the only specimen cited by Prieur as such.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 673; Numismatic Fine Arts [XXI] Fall Mail Bid Sale (12 October 1988), lot 947; Numismatic Fine Arts VI (27 February 1979), lot 773.