71, Lot: 91. Estimate $75. Sold for $76. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.46 gm). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Eagle standing facing, head left, wreath in beak, star between eagle's legs. Prieur 252. Toned VF, lightly porous. 

Duplicate from the Richard McAlee Collection.

Prieur suggests that this issue may have been struck at Emesa, the site of Elagabalus' rebellion against Macrinus.