447, Lot: 289. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.88 g, 1h). 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 turned to right beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1012 (this coin). Toned, some minor porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.