443, Lot: 354. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.65 g, 4h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, facing statue between two bulls. Prieur 1216 (this coin). Choice EF, lustrous, metal flaw on reverse edge. Very rare, thirteen known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.