445, Lot: 356. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.62 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing right on serpent-entwined torch right, head and tail left, holding wreath with its spread wings; S P Q R within wreath. Prieur 1657; Sofaer –. VF, toned, light porosity, flan striations on reverse, metal flaws. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 113 (18 October 2001), lot 5525.