453, Lot: 445. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.79 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine with pediment. Prieur 854. Toned, some minor porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only four noted by Prieur, and none in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, no. 963; Elsen 64 (2 December 2000), lot 811.