382, Lot: 215. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Macrinus, with Diadumenian as Caesar. AD 217-218. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 12.31 g, 12h). Pontianus,
legatus consularis. Confronted busts of Macrinus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Diadumenian left, bareheaded and draped / Emperor, holding spear and raising hand, on horseback right, about to trample bound captive; E (mark of value) to upper left. H&J 6.24.31.1 (R9, same dies); Varbanov 1184 (R6). VF, green patina, fields smoothed. Rare type.