CNG 99, Lot: 459. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Tridrachm (24mm, 9.15 g, 12h). Dated RY 1 (AD 217). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Mt. Argaeus surmounted by nude male figure holding globe and scepter; ЄT A (date) in exergue. Sydenham, Caesarea –; Berk BBS 166, lot 575 (same obv. die); Berk BBS 167, lot 449 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die). VF, some porosity. Very rare and attractive for the coinage of Macrinus from Caesarea.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 287 (26 September 2012), lot 306; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 264 (21 September 2011), lot 299; Artemide Aste 5E (19 December 2010), lot 1239; Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 883.