453, Lot: 381. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Tetradrachm (25mm, 9.45 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left. Prieur 969. Dark green to black patina with reddish earthen highlights/deposits, a few cleaning marks. Good VF. Extremely rare, only four noted by Prieur, and four, including this coin, in CoinArchives.
From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 1002; Classical Numismatic Group 67 (22 December 2004), lot 1143.
From our CNG 67 catalog description: “Seemingly an official issue, and known from several different mints, these base metal tetradrachms have no visible silver content and no evidence of having been plated.”