443, Lot: 412. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.04 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; altar between legs, small shrine in upper right field. Prieur 1332. Near VF, toned, some light porosity and deposits. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 1282 (part of).