449, Lot: 369. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.21 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; six-pointed star between legs; retrograde C Δ across fields. Prieur 1735B (this coin illustrated). Brown-gray surfaces, flan flaw on cheek. Good VF. Extremely rare – one of only five known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex H.-W. Müller 46 (22 June 1984), lot 387.