453, Lot: 399. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 11.39 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation(?). Struck circa AD 215-217. AVT K · M · A . . ANTWNЄINOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC TO Δ, eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ and Є above wings; eight-rayed star between legs. Prieur 1735D (this coin; ‘Atypical Coins: Laodicean Type’). Toned, scratches under tone, minor porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and possibly one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.