Search


CNG Bidding Platform

Information

Products and Services



Research Coins: Electronic Auction

 
447, Lot: 288. Estimate $200.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.75 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; crescent above eagle’s head. Prieur 1011 (this coin). Lustrous, obverse metal flaw (striation). EF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Superior Galleries “Moreira Sale” (31 May 1988), lot 1979.