453, Lot: 289. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.98 g, 5h). “Emesan Issues”. Struck AD 219. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur 250; McAlee 760 (this coin illustrated). Toned, a bit of porosity. VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, and none, correctly attributed, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.