447, Lot: 245. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYRRHESTICA, Beroea. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.20 g, 8h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, winged animal flanked by B-Є. Prieur 898 (this coin). Toned with underlying luster, some porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Sternberg XXIV (19 November 1990), lot 304.