Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 812. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACRINUS. 217-218 AD. Æ Sestertius (22.26 g, 11h). Struck July 217-February 218 AD. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Jupiter standing front, head left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre. RIC IV 185; Clay Issue 2; BMCRE 139 var. (long beard); Cohen 34. Good VF, brown and red-brown patina, gray-green highlights, surfaces lightly smoothed. A protocontorniate, the edges having been tapped to create raised rims. ($750)