443, Lot: 420. Estimate $200. Sold for $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 11.53 g, 5h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; carriage of Astarte between legs. Prieur 1363 (this coin). Good VF, toned, some minor porosity. Very rare, only six known to Prieur, and five in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Lanz 36 (21 April 1986), lot 749.