Extremely Rare

443, Lot: 422. Estimate $200. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 13.96 g, 12h). Struck AD 209-211. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on club right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; murex shell between legs. Prieur 1533. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear FPL 1 (Winter/Spring 1994), no. A261.