Triton XVI, Lot: 712. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Macrinus. AD 217-218. Æ (30mm, 18.29 g, 6h). Dated CY 264 (217/8). AV[T K] M • OΠ CЄV MAKPINO[C], radiate and cuirassed bust right; c/ms: 1) eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread; 2) laureate head (of Elagabalus?) right; 3) head of Asclepius right / MAKPINOV Π[...]Θ around, AIΓЄΩN in exergue, ship under sail to left beside the pharos (lighthouse) of Aegeae surmounted by statue of Poseidon, holding trident; to left, goat kneeling right above second ship in the distance; Δ[ΞC] to upper right. Robert, Inscriptions p. 178, fig. 8 var.; SNG France 2344 var.; SNG Levante 1746 var.; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Pfälzer –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –; Lindgren –; MPR II –; Mionnet –; for c/m’s: Howgego 336, 100, and 5, respectively. VF, attractive green patina. An apparently unpublished variant of a very rare type.

An interesting coin with a reverse superior to the specimens cited above. Those examples differ in bust types, obverse legend (in the case of the Levante coin), and in minor details of the reverse.