453, Lot: 401. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Laodicea ad Mare. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 11.92 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation. [AV]T K M A[...]A ИTNNONO, laureate bust right, slight drapery / [Δ]HMAPX [ЄΞ VΠATO ...], eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; Δ and C above wings; eight-rayed star between legs. Prieur 1735B (‘Atypical Coins: Laodicean Type’) var. (eagle head and tail right). Toned, deposits, cleaning marks. VF. Extremely rare – one of only five known to Prieur.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.