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447, Lot: 274. Estimate $100.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 10.76 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; A to right of eagle’s head. Prieur 951 (this coin). Toned, minor porosity, edge flaw. VF. Extremely rare, only one noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.