443, Lot: 414. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 14.41 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, Europa riding bull right. Prieur 1354. EF, lustrous with some light iridescent toning. Very rare, only seven known to Prieur, and five in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Ceresio 1 (26 September 1987), lot 292.