453, Lot: 387. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.47 g, 12h). 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; H beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 989. Toned, traces of underlying luster, struck on a compact flan. EF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.