453, Lot: 212. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Drachm (22mm, 5.70 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain-ears and poppy; below, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus swimming left. Prieur – (cf. 810/809 for obv./rev.); SNG Levante 1075 var. (laureate head right); SNG BN 1548 var. (obv. bust seen from front, rev. legend and its distribution). Toned, porous, a few deposits. Fine. Extremely rare, Prieur did not own this example when he published his book, and one, this coin, in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 225 (13 January 2010), lot 271.