CNG 112, Lot: 439. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 12.72 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on club right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; murex shell between legs. Prieur 1549; Bellinger 307. Toned with underlying luster, minor deposits, lustrous. EF. Nice portrait style.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 691; Waddell FPL 39 (1989), no. 54 .