447, Lot: 296. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 13.30 g, 12h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left. Prieur 973 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster. Near EF. Extremely rare, only six noted by Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 46 (30 October 1989), lot 395.