449, Lot: 362. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Edessa type. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.20 g, 7h). Radiate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; small shrine between legs. Prieur 1720 (same obv. die). Lustrous. EF. Extremely rare – only one known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 777; Lanz 60 (11 June 1992), lot 677.