453, Lot: 424. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Byblus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.83 g, 6h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; altar between legs; wreath in upper right field; no pellet above altar. Prieur 1336. Porosity on obverse, minor pitting in obverse fiels. VF. Extremely rare, one known to Prieur, none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.