453, Lot: 435. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.43 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined torch right, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Prieur 1661; Sofaer 55. Find patina, deposits, some porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only one known to Prieur, and one in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 134 (11 October 2004), lot 2220; G. Hirsch 191 (24 September 1996), lot 1268.