447, Lot: 284. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.80 g, 6h). 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; O beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1001. Lustrous. Near EF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Reportedly ex Nomisma FPL (March 1985), no. 8.