453, Lot: 415. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.96 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head left, tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crescent between legs. Prieur 1280. Toned, several small areas of flatness, traces of underlying luster. Good VF. Extremely rare, only two known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Sternberg XVI (15 November 1985), lot 315.