Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.49 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. AVT K M A AN-TΩNINOC CЄB, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC Δ, eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, deity wearing calathus, holding whip in right hand and fulmen in left, flanked by two bulls. Prieur 1217; Bellinger 253 var. (rev. legend; Orthosia). EF, toned. Rare with this reverse legend.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Robert Gait Collection, 641; Superior (7 June 1987), lot 4545.