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Rare Provincial Issue for Macrianus

442, Lot: 657. Estimate $150.
Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Macrianus. Usurper, AD 260-261. Æ Octassarion (24.5mm, 6.84 g, 1h). In alliance with Byzantium. TI ΦOVA IOV MAKRIANOC CЄ-B, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / NIKAIЄΩN BV-ZAN[T]IΩN, OM/ON/OI/A in field, two conical wicker baskets, containing ears of corn; between them, at bottom, prize urn containing two palms. F&N 1435-7 (VsA/Rs40); RG 871; SNG von Aulock 734 (same dies). VF, brown patina, lightly smoothed on obverse. Rare.


Ex Glendining’s (9 October 1989), lot 765.