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447, Lot: 298. Estimate $150.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.67 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 976 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster, minor porosity, a few deposits. EF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9 September 1994), lot 1307.