436, Lot: 384. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.99 g, 12h). AV K M ΟΠЄΛ CЄ MAKPЄINOC CЄB, laureate and draped bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; shrine with pediment between legs. Prieur 862 (this coin illustrated); Bellinger 148. VF, toned, obverse die breaks. Rare, 1 of 5 cited by Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Auctiones 12 (29 September 1981), lot 258; Peus 324 (5 April 1989), lot 549.