453, Lot: 417. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.07 g, 6h). Radiate and draped bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; crescent between legs. Prieur 1287 (same obv. die as illustration). Toned, some roughness. VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.