449, Lot: 368. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Caracalla(?). AD 198-217. Æ Tetradrachm (25mm, 8.55 g, 1h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head right and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; six-pointed star between legs. Prieur 1735A (this coin illustrated). Gray green patina. Good VF. Extremely rare – one of only three known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Frank Kovacs, 1993.