447, Lot: 294. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.33 g, 12h). 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; Λ to left of Shamash. Prieur 966. Toned. Near EF. Extremely rare, only one noted by Prieur, and one, this coin, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Album 14 (21 September 2012), lot 48; Numismatic Art & Ancient Coins FPL 6 (Undated, Zurich), no. 259.