Triton XVIII, Lot: 1169. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrinus. AD 217-218. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 22.75 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 2nd emission, AD 217-218. IMP CAES M OPEL • SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, wearing short beard / PONTIF • MAX • TR P • P P, S C in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left on throne, feeding out of patera in left hand, snake coiling up around altar, and laying right hand on neck of snake. RIC IV 124; Szaivert 5; Clay issue 2; Banti 41; BMCRE 117 var. (long beard). VF, green and brown surfaces, minor roughness and smoothing.

From the RAM Collection, purchased from Lucien Birkler, January 1990.