449, Lot: 336. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.59 g, 12h). Laureate and draped bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, bull’s head right. Prieur 1248 (this coin). Toned, a few minor flan flaws, minor graffiti on obverse. VF. Very rare, one known to Prieur, and five in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Berk BBS 60 (16 January 1990), lot 408.