436, Lot: 387. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Rhesaena. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.42 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT KAI M AVP ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Δ, eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; rectangle between legs. Prieur 877 var. (obv. legend); Bellinger 175 var. (same). Near EF, lamination flaw on obverse. Possibly an unpublished variety.
From the colleciton of Michel Prieur. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 1284 (part of).