453, Lot: 383. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.54 g, 12h). Officina O. 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; O beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1000. Lightly toned with underlying luster, a touch of porosity, weakly struck on the reverse. Good VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Künker 97 (7 March 2005), lot 1629; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 557 (August 1992), lot 220 (not illustrated).