Sale: Triton X, Lot: 694. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Macrinus, with Diadumenian as Caesar. AD 217-218. Æ Pentassarion (10.87 g, 12h). Marcianopolis mint. Pontianus, legatus consularis. •AVT K OPEL CEV MAKPEINOC • K M OPE ANTWN/NOCI (sic), laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Macrinus right, seen from behind, vis-à-vis bare-headed and draped bust of Diadumenian left, seen from behind / VP PONTIANOV (OV ligate) MAPKIANOPOLEITWN, Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; E to left. AMNG I 748 var. (obv. legend); cf. Mouchmov 534; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. Varbanov 896. EF, green patina. Apparently an unpublished variety.

Ex Arsantiqva I (3 November 2000), lot 340; Giessener Münzhandlung 101 (6 March 2000), lot 525.