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441, Lot: 365. Estimate $200.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Didrachm (22.5mm, 5.80 g, 6h). Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on rocky outcropping, holding grain ear and poppies; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus swimming left; A/M-K (= “first, greatest, most beautiful”) across field. Prieur 809 = SNG Levante 1075 (this coin); SNG BN –. VF, find patina, flan clipped in antiquity. Extremely rare, only one specimen, this coin, known to Prieur, and two specimens, including this coin, on CoinArchives.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Edoardo Levante Collection (Part IV, Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 1162; Sternberg IX (15 November 1979), lot 369.