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445, Lot: 354. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.70 g, 12h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on [thyrsus], head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; wine jar (amphora) between legs. Prieur 1647; cf. Meshorer, Aelia 100; Sofaer –. VF, toned, weakly struck on a compact flan. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.