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357, Lot: 226. Estimate $200.
Sold for $408. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Macrinus, with Diadumenian as Caesar. AD 217-218. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 10.61 g, 6h). Pontianus, consular legate. AVT K ΟΠEΛ CEVH MAKPEINOC K M ΟΠE ANTΩNEINOC (wedge stop), confronted heads of Macrinus right, laureate, and Diadumenian left, bareheaded / VΠ ΠONTIANOV M(AP) K IANOΠOΛEIT(ΩN), Hera standing facing, head left, holding phiale and scepter; E (mark of value) to left. H&J, Marcianopolis, 6.24.3.1-4 var. (E to right); AMNG I/I 722 var. (same); Varbanov 1185a var. (same). Good VF, brown and green patina. Currently unique variety with the mark of value to the left of Hera.


From the Elwood Rafn Collection.