447, Lot: 357. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Seleucia Pieria. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.11 g, 11h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on thunderbolt, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1189 (this coin). Lightly toned, thin flan crack, some obverse porosity and light scratches. Good VF. Extremely rare, only four noted by Prieur, and three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.