Sale: Nomos 6, Lot: 181. Estimate CHF2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 May 2012.  Sold For CHF1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrinus. AD 217-218. Denarius (Silver, 21mm, 3.49 g 6), Rome, fourth officina, first emission, May 217. IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG Laureate and cuirassed bust of Macrinus to right Rev. SALVS PVBLICA Salus seated on throne, partially facing but turned to the left; with her right hand, caressing snake, coiled around an altar to left, and with her left, feeding it from a patera. BMC 26. RIC IV 84. Szaivert series 3. Very attractively toned. A superb example. Good extremely fine.

Ex Triton XIV, 4 January 2011, 767.