Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1437. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACRINUS. 217-218 AD. Æ Sestertius (28.63 gm, 12h). Struck July 217-February 218 AD. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Salus seated left, feeding from patera snake coiled about altar. RIC IV 124; Clay issue 2; BMCRE 117; Cohen 74. VF, jade green patina, a little rough. Rare. ($2000)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1595.