453, Lot: 280. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 12.30 g, 12h). 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 and cornucopia. Prieur 244; McAlee 693; Bellinger 37.8 (this coin illustrated on Pl. IV, no. 4). Toned, some roughness, minor deposits and verdigris. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 667; Empire Coins FPL 42 (1988), no. 139.