★ Lovely obverse ★

Coele. Heliopolis. Caracalla AD 198-217.
Billon-Tetradrachm

28 mm, 13,51 g

AVT K M A ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to left, holding spear over his right shoulder and shield on his left; breastplate decorated with aegis; shield is decorated with a half-length figure of the bearded Apollo of Hierapolis, wearing calathus, holding serpent-entwined spear in right hand and flower in left, set on a pedestal decorated with two eagles / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤΟC ΤΟ Δ, eagle with spread wings standing facing, head to right and holding wreath in beak; between the eagle's legs, star above lion walking right.

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Prieur 935; Bellinger 101.