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From the Carlo Fontana Collection

445, Lot: 347. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 12.50 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on filleted thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; vine leaf between legs. Prieur 1617; Meshorer, Aelia 95; Sofaer 82-3. VF, toned. Very rare, eight known to Prieur, and eight in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Carlo Fontana Collection (Finarte Casa D’Aste 995, 26 November 1996), lot 1066, purchased from C. Crippa, 1966.