445, Lot: 352. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.08 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on filleted thyrsus, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; vine leaf between legs. Prieur 1637; Meshorer, Aelia 97; Sofaer –. VF, toned, a touch of porosity, deposits on the reverse. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.