453, Lot: 405. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DECAPOLIS, Gadara. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.78 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, the Three Graces within wreath. Prieur 1610. Deposits, some pitting. VF. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and one (CNG E-445, lot 344), in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.