Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 410. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 10.54 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; altar between legs, palm frond in upper right field. Prieur 1327 (this coin). VF, toned, light porosity. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.