453, Lot: 298. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.31 g, 5h). Struck AD 219. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ-Є flanking head, star between legs. Prieur 249 & 273 (this coin); McAlee 758. Toned, minor porosity and deposits, some underlying luster on the reverse. Good VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection, purchased from Richard McAlee as an unofficial issue.