218, Lot: 460. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrianus. Usurper, AD 260-261. Antoninianus (16mm, 3.03 g, 11h). Samosata mint. 1st emission. Radiate and cuirassed bust right, with slight drapery on far shoulder / Spes advancing left, holding flower and lifting hem of skirt; star to left. RIC V 13; MIR 44, 1743b; RSC 13a. VF, encrusted.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.