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Electronic Auction 398  31 May 2017
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Lot 448

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 800 USD
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PHOENICIA, Berytus. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.42 g, 12h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; three grain ears between legs; in exergue, dolphin entwined around trident right. Prieur 1302. VF, minor porosity, some deposits on reverse. Extremely rare and possibly the only in private hands.

Only one known to Prieur (unillustrated, but cited as in the collection of Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), and none in CoinArchives.
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