Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 391. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.96 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head left, tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crescent between legs. Prieur 1280 (this coin). VF, toned, some porosity. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Reportedly ex Richard McAlee Collection.