449, Lot: 379. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

‘ATYPICAL’ COINS, Laodicea type. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 9.41 g, 11h). Laureate bust right, drapery on shoulder / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; seven-pointed star between legs; Δ Є across fields. Cf. Prieur 1735. Some porosity. 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 Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271 (11 January 2012), lot 965.