398, Lot: 422. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Celenderis. Macrinus. AD 217-218. Æ (27mm, 9.30 g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Poseidon standing left, holding dolphin and trident; crude altar to left. SNG BN –; SNG Levante –; cf. SNG Levante Supp. 136 (for obv. die); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –. Near VF, green-brown patina. Very rare.
Ex John Casey Collection.
See CNG inventory 733444 for another example from the same dies, which retailed at $495.