Calicó Plate Coin - Ex Friend of the Romans Collection

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 692. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $45000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrinus. AD 217-218. AV Aureus (7.23 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 2nd emission, 2nd phase, circa January-March, AD 218. IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / SECVRITAS TEMPORVM, Securitas standing left, holding scepter in right hand, leaning on column to right. RIC IV 90; Szaivert series 10; Calicó 2976a corr. (Rome mint; this coin); BMCRE -. Superb EF, lustrous.

Ex Friend of the Romans Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 92, 22 November 2002), lot 145; Leu 57 (25 May 1993), lot 290; Münzen und Medaillen XXI (19 March 1960), lot 70.