453, Lot: 420. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 11.54 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate bust right, slight drapery; pellet at end of legend / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, ram’s head left above altar. Prieur 1311 var. (no pellet at end of obv. legend). Toned, porosity. VF. Extremely rare variety with pellet at end of obv. legend, one known to Prieur, three in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.