449, Lot: 376. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 10.72 g, 1h). Laureate bust right, drapery on shoulder / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crude six-pointed(?) star between legs; retrograde C Δ across fields. Cf. Prieur 1735. Dark brown patina. 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 Gilmore Collection.