449, Lot: 371. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.17 g, 5h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; eight-pointed star between legs; Δ Є across fields. Cf. Prieur 1735. Dark brown surfaces. Good VF. Extremely rare, this coin was not part of the Prieur collection at the time of his book’s publication.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Antioch Associates 7 (19 November 1996), lot 25.