CNG 111, Lot: 538. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.20 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 208-212. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread and holding wreath in beak; palm frond to right. Prieur 215 (this coin); McAlee 675. EF, lightly toned with underlying luster. Very rare, five known to Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Ceresio 2 (26 September 1988), lot 222.