Rare Tarsus Drachm

225, Lot: 271. Estimate $300. Sold for $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Drachm (22mm, 5.69 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Tyche seated left, holding grain-ears and poppy; river god Kyndos swimming left below. Prieur 810/809 (obv./rev.); SNG France 1548 var. (rev. legend and its distribution); SNG Levante 1075 var. (laureate head right). Fine, porous. Extremely rare.