442, Lot: 549. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrianus. Usurper, AD 260-261. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.50 g, 5h). Normal style. Samosata mint. IMP C FVL MACRIANVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / MARTI PROPVGNATORI, Mars walking right, holding spear and shield; star in lower right field. MIR 44, 1737k corr. (position of star); RIC V 10 corr. (same); Cunetio –. VF, low silver content, porosity.

Ex Burgan 37 (30 September 1994), lot 642.

Mattingly (1954) makes it clear that the star is always in the right field on this reverse type.