445, Lot: 342. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DECAPOLIS, Gadara. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.17 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, the Three Graces within wreath. Prieur 1606 (this coin). Near VF, toned, some porosity, areas of corrosion. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.