436, Lot: 368. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.61 g, 1h). Officina with Crescent. AVT K M ΟΠ CЄ MAKPINOC CЄ-B, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC Π Π, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; beneath eagle’s head, crescent with horns turned to left; between legs, radiate bust of Shamash left. Prieur 1017; Bellinger 206. EF, lightly toned, porous in areas.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 719; Sotheby’s (22 March 1990), lot 86 (part of).