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440, Lot: 368. Estimate $100.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Macrinus. AD 217-218. Æ (24mm, 12.29 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Perseus standing facing, head left, holding head of Medusa and harpa. Sofaer 188; Rouvier 1026 var. (bust type and ethnic); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –; AUB –. Near VF, dark green patina with reddish earthen highlights/deposits. Very rare, this variety, with laureate head right, only published in the Sofaer collection, and only one example (this coin) on CoinArchives.


From the Ralph DeMarco ‘Perseus’ Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 194 (20 August 2008), lot 197.