449, Lot: 339. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.21 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, crescent above Λ of legend. Prieur 1273 (same dies as illustration). Toned, small copper deposit in ear, some porosity. Good VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Lanz 64 (7 June 1993), lot 643.