Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 360. Estimate $150. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.81 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, pilei of the Dioscuri. Prieur 1226. Good VF, lightly toned, small deposit on Caracalla’s forehead. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Künker 226 (11 March 2013), lot 883.