443, Lot: 373. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.09 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, bull’s head right. Prieur 1240 (this coin). EF, lustrous, minor deposits on the reverse. Very rare, six known to Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 461 (November/December 1983), lot 81.