Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 400. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 12.55 g, 5h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin-entwined trident right. Prieur 1297. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and one, this coin, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 212 (5 March 2013), lot 2532.