453, Lot: 440. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Carrhae. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.59 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on bull’s head flanked by pellets, head right and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; pellet to either side of eagles’ head. Prieur 825. Toned with underlying luster. EF. Very rare, only eight noted by Prieur, and four in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 728; Edward J. Waddell, Ltd. FPL 47 (Summer 1990), no. 77.