443, Lot: 382. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.80 g, 12h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, bull’s head right. Prieur 1242 (this coin). Good VF, lustrous, weakly struck in areas. Very rare, four known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.