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449, Lot: 363. Estimate $150.
Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Edessa type. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.88 g, 11h). Laureate 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 1722 (same dies). Lightly toned, some porosity, flan flaw on reverse. VF. Extremely rare – only one known to Prieur.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 810; Elsen 45 (15 June 1996), lot 280.