Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 361. Estimate $150. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.21 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 1227A (this coin). Good VF, toned, a touch of porosity. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.