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447, Lot: 393. Estimate $150.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.25 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine with pediment. Prieur 863 (this coin). Toned, some porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only two noted by Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts [XVII] Summer Mail Bid Sale (27 June 1986), lot 933.