CNG 112, Lot: 455. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.22 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; shrine with pediment between legs. Prieur 864. Toned, faint porosity. Good VF. Very rare, only three noted by Prieur, and four, including this coin, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 559; Springfield Collection (Part II, Bowers & Ruddy, 27 December 1982), lot 3085.