453, Lot: 295. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.27 g, 12h). “Unknown Engravers”. Struck AD 219. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ–Є flanking head, star between legs. Prieur 251 & 264 (this coin); McAlee 762. Toned with underlying luster, a touch of porosity. VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.