★ An Extremely Rare Tetradrachm of Elagabalus ★

Elagabalus AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria (or Emesa?). AD 219. AVT K M A [ANTѠ]NЄINOC CЄB, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, with right hand raised in salutation / [ΔHMAPX] ЄΞ VΠATOC TO B, eagle standing facing with wings spread, head to left, holding wreath in beak; Δ-Є across fields, star below. Prieur 253 (this coin); McAlee 773. 14.94g, 26mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; cabinet tone with golden lustre around the devices. Extremely Rare; no other examples on 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.