Triton XV, Lot: 1377. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Macrinus, with Diadumenian as Caesar. AD 217-218. Æ Pentassarion (26mm, 10.70 g, 7h). Pontianus, consular legate. AVT K ΟΠEΛ CEVH MAKPEINOC K M ΟΠE ANTΩNEINOC, confronted heads of Macrinus right, laureate, and Diadumenian left, bareheaded / VΠ ΠONTIANOV M(AP)-KIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Nemesis standing facing, head left, holding scales in extended right and scepter in left; wheel at feet to left, E (mark of value) to right. H&J 6.24.35.3 corr. (obv. legend; same dies as illustration); Varbanov 1207 corr. / var. (obv. legend; same obv. die as illustration / Є for denomination mark) and 1209 var. (obv. legend). EF, attractive olive-green patina.