449, Lot: 366. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Edessa type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.60 g, 11h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right set on eagle standing right, holding wreath in beak / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; small shrine between legs. Prieur 1727 (this coin illustrated). Some porosity. Good VF. Extremely rare – the only one known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Brussels market hoard (R. Bland, “Hoards of Syrian Tetradrachms,” in NC 151 [1991], p. 9-10, Hoard IV [coin not listed, but see note under Prieur 1727]).