Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1050. Estimate $25000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $28000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACRINUS. 217-218 AD. AV Aureus (7.33 gm). Struck 218 AD. IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P M TR P II COS P P, Annona standing facing, head left, holding grain ears in right hand, cornucopiae in left; modius at her feet. RIC IV 25 var. (bust type); BMCRE 44 note; Cohen 46. Lustrous, superb EF. Very rare, especially this nice. (See color enlargement on plate 17.) ($25,000)