453, Lot: 277. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 12.38 g, 7h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread and holding wreath in beak; between its legs, star above cornucopia. Prieur 241 (this coin; first example illustrated [CP 637]); McAlee 693. Lightly toned with underlying luster, minor roughness, obverse double struck. Good VF. Very rare, nine known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.