443, Lot: 386. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.68 g, 12h). Laureate, 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 1245 (this coin). Good VF, toned with underlying luster, minor porosity. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.