443, Lot: 394. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.91 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, with crescent below / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crescent between legs. Prieur 1286 (this coin). VF, toned, some minor porosity, scratches in right obverse field. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

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