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447, Lot: 305. Estimate $200.
Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.79 g, 12h). 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; O beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1003 (this coin). Lustrous. EF. Extremely rare, only three noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 2 (21 February 1990), lot 739.