445, Lot: 362. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.85 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined torch right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, bull’s head right. Prieur 1666 (this coin); Sofaer –. Good VF, lightly toned with underlying luster, flan crack. Rare, only twelve noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Berk BBS 60 (16 January 1990), lot 405.