Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 805. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Macrinus. 217-218 AD. AR Drachm (5.91 gm). AVT K M OP CEV MAKPINOC CEB, laureate head right / TAP MHTP KTICTHC, Herakles left, reclining on a lion skin, holding club on knee and calyx. SNG Levante 1074 (this coin); SNG France 1547; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC Lycaonia -; Prieur 806 (this coin illustrated). Toned, good VF, small flan flaw. Extremely rare; only four specimens are known, in three minor varieties. ($500)

Ex Sternberg XI (20-21 November 1981), lot 368.