449, Lot: 367. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.20 g, 7h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; four-pointed star between legs. Prieur 1733 (this coin illustrated). Toned, underlying luster. Good VF. Extremely rare – the only one known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Hirsch 159 (21 September 1988), lot 860.