Triton XVI, Lot: 716. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Macrinus, with Diadumenian as Caesar. AD 217-218. Æ (36mm, 25.92 g, 12h). Struck AD 218. AY K M OΠ CЄOY MA[KPI]NOC M OΠ ΔIAΔOY ANTωNЄ[I], confronted busts of Macrinus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Diadeumenian left, bareheaded and draped / M[HTP]OΠOΛC (sic) [KAICAPIAC?], Mt. Argaeus surmounted by statue; star and crescent in upper field; at base of mountain, tetrastyle temple between two agonistic urns; in exergue, NEΩΚOPOV/ ЄT B (date) in two lines. Sydenham, Caesarea 507 var.; BMC 282 var.; SNG von Aulock 6498 var.; SNG Hunterian 2265 var. (all with slightly different rev. legend). Good VF, dark green patina, earthen highlights. Exceptional for issue.