449, Lot: 340. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.58 g, 1h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, crescent. Prieur 1275 (this coin referenced). Toned, a few deposits, obverse slightly off center. Good VF. Extremely rare, two known to Prieur (including this coin), and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex A.K. Collection (Triton XIV, 4 January 2011), lot 558 (part of); Sternberg XIV (15 November 1985), lot 316.