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Auction XIX  26-27 Mar 2020
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Lot 669

Estimate: 1250 GBP
Price realized: 900 GBP
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Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 207-209. AVT KAI ANTΩNЄINOC CЄ, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC B, eagle with wings spread and head to right standing facing, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. Prieur 1142 (this coin); Prieur & Amandry Group II, 27; McAlee, Severan, Group I, 15. 14.41g, 27mm, 12h.

Near Mint State; light golden cabinet tone. Extremely Rare; one of just two examples known to Prieur.

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 A. Tkalec AG, 28 October 1994, lot 250.
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