453, Lot: 397. Estimate $100. Sold for $960. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 11.80 g, 12h). First Group. Struck AD 205-207. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery; gorgoneion on breastplate / Eagle standing facing, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur 1129 (this coin illustrated). Deposits. Good VF. Possibly unique, one example (this coin) known to Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 482 (October 1985), no. 36.