439, Lot: 307. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.38 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠA•TO :, eagle standing facing on thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; • Δ • and • Є • above wings. Prieur 224A (this coin); McAlee 681 note. Near VF, toned, a few deposits. Extremely rare, only one example known to Prieur, and none on CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.

Prieur notes that “The only possibility” (for the obverse legend ending with : instead of a ∆) “would seem to be that an old obverse die of Caracalla was used by the mint with a current Macrinus or Diadumenian die.”