449, Lot: 375. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 9.67 g, 11h). Laureate bust right, drapery on shoulder / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; five-pointed star between legs; retrograde C Δ across fields. Cf. Prieur 1735. A few deposits. 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 Robert Gait Collection, no. 727; Edward J. Waddell inventory 11851 (1990).