449, Lot: 372. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (22mm, 8.72 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; five-pointed star between legs; Δ Є across fields. Cf. Prieur 1735. 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.