441, Lot: 359. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Didrachm (24.5mm, 5.68 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on rocky outcropping, holding uncertain object; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus swimming left; AM-K (= “first, greatest, most beautiful”) across field. Prieur 790 = SNG Levante 1039; SNG BN 1498. VF, toned, some roughness, irregular flan. Very rare, only one known to Prieur, and seven on CoinArchives, including this coin.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 94 (18 September 2013), lot 902.