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447, Lot: 297. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 11.91 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust 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. Prieur 975 (this coin). Toned, light porosity, some light scratches, flan a little irregular. VF. Extremely rare, only four noted by Prieur, and four in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.