CNG 111, Lot: 540. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.32 g, 11h). Struck circa AD 216-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Eagle standing facing on leg and thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread and holding wreath in beak; Δ-Є flanking head. Prieur 226 (this coin); McAlee 682. Superb EF, lightly toned with underlying luster, flan flaw.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 5 (18 April 1986), lot 471.