Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 695. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Denarius (3.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, March AD 218. IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right, wearing long beard, seen from behind / P M TR P II COS P P, Macrinus, togate, seated left on curule chair, holding globe in extended right hand and short scepter in left. RIC IV 27; Szaivert 11/5; Clay issue 3; RSC 51a; BMCRE 47-8. Superb EF, handsome toning, a spot of die rust on reverse at neck. A gorgeous coin.

From the White Mountain Collection.