Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 740. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $801. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis. Macrinus. 217-218 AD. Æ 27mm (13.40 gm, 7h). Agrippa, magistrate. AV K OPPEL CEVH MAKPINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / V P AGRIPPA NIKOPOLITWN PROC ICTP, the Nymphaeum at Nicopolis: a semi-circular building with two stories of colonnaded porticos, the whole covered by a flat roof or a removable awning, with a colonnaded forecourt fronting a body of water. AMNG I 1719 var. (cuirassed bust); BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. Price & Trell 48 (fig. 70) for the same type under Septimius Severus. Good VF, emerald green patina. ($750)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.