432, Lot: 189. Estimate $100. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Macrinus, with Diadumenian as Caesar. AD 217-218. Æ (38mm, 28.27 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 218). Confronted busts of Macrinus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Diadeumenian left, bareheaded and draped / Mt. Argaeus surmounted by statue; star and crescent in upper field; at base of mountain, tetrastyle temple between two agonistic urns; in exergue, [NЄ]ΩΚOPO[V/ Є]T [B] (date) in two lines. Sydenham,
Caesarea 507 or 508. Fine, brown patina. Rare.