453, Lot: 391. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.85 g, 6h). 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 1004. Traces of deposits, areas of flat strike at periphery, traces of underlying luster. Good VF.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 537 (October 1990), no. 183.