447, Lot: 304. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.53 g, 6h). 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; H beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 993 (this coin). Lightly toned with underlying luster, some deposits. EF.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 715.