CNG 111, Lot: 534. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.59 g, 11h). Struck AD 204. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread. Prieur 190 (this coin); McAlee 664. Superb EF, lightly toned with underlying luster. Excellent young portrait. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, 1991.