Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1530. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACRINUS. 217-218 AD Æ Sestertius (23.51 g, 12h). Struck July 217-March 218 AD. IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, with long beard, seen from front / PROVIDENTIA DEORVM, S C in exergue, Providentia standing left, holding wand in right hand over a globe, cradling cornucopiae in left arm. RIC IV 159; Clay Issue 2; Banti 58 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 140 note; Cohen 109. Good VF, dark green patina, light cleaning scratches, die shift on reverse. ($3000)

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Lanz 32 (29 April 1985), lot 682; Frederick A. Walters Collection (A. Hess 211, 9 May 1932), lot 1207.