447, Lot: 275. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.14 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; A beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 952. Toned, some minor porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and five in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 191 (11 October 2010), lot 1851; Lanz 132 (27 November 2006), lot 425.