447, Lot: 308. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.21 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; crescent beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1015 (this coin). Lightly toned, some minor porosity, slight obverse die shift. Near EF. Very rare, only three noted by Prieur, and eight in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts [XXIII] Winter Mail Bid Sale (14 December 1989), lot 1162.