Triton XVI, Lot: 1106. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.49 g, 6h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 1st emission, May 217. IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / SALVS PVBLICA, Salus, draped, seated left on throne, feeding out of patera in left hand, snake coiling up from altar to left, and extending right hand to touch head of snake. RIC IV 84; Szaivert series 3; RSC 114; BMCRE 26. Superb EF, wonderful old cabinet tone.

Ex Triton XIV (4 January 2011), lot 767.