447, Lot: 303. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.15 g, 6h). 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; H beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 989 (this coin). Lustrous with some minor porosity. Good VF.
From the Michel Prieur Collection.