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Auction XIX  26-27 Mar 2020
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Lot 668

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 4200 GBP
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Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 209-212. AVT KAI ANTѠNINOC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠAT Γ, laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion's skin tied around neck. Prieur 1530 (this coin); Bellinger 299. 14.54g, 27mm, 6h.

Mint State; old cabinet tone. Very Rare; only 6 other examples in CoinArchives.

This coin published in M. Prieur, A Type Corpus of The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and Their Fractions from 57 BC to AD 253 (Lancaster, 2000);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Sotheby's, 8 July 1996, lot 142;
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XIV, 29 November 1984, lot 489.
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