Please post your coins of Macrianus

Hello friends,

Here is my new addition to the list of Emperors: Macrianus, please post yours

thanks
Svarog

 

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Svarog, great addition!!! Very nice example!! These can be tough to get with god surfaces.

I just got one of these myself, although not as nice as yours.

Macrianus Billon Antoninianus.
IMP C FVL MACRIANVS P F AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right
ROMAE AETERNAE, Roma seated left on shield, holding Victory and spear. RSC 11; Sear 10807.

 

Congrats on your OP-addition

... sadly, I don't have one of those (Macrinus doesn't count, eh?)

 

Macrinus sestertius Securitas

 

Great Macrianus @Svarog ... Are you going to free it from the plastic tomb?

Here is my Macrianus:


RI Macrianus 260-261 CE BI Ant Spes Publica star

 

Mistake it is Macrianus

 

Hi Friends, yes, it is hard to get these in good quality, another one off my list

 

not just yet, Will keep it there for now

 

Yes, indeed, got lucky, i guess, would love to add Quietus and Marius to the list one day

 

I just posted this Quietus a while ago but here it is again

 

It's hammer time, @Svarog!

My Macrianus, with terrible metal like all of them:



Still on the lookout for a Quietus. I like yours very much, @TJC. Not nearly as pitted as they typically are, and a nice portrait.

 

I have Quietus and Marius... not the best... but they meet my Portraits test...


RI Quietus usurper 260-261 CE Ant 3-74g Samasota mint Indulgentia patera scepter RIC V 5



RI Marius 269 Gallic Usurper BI Ant CONCORD MILIT Clasped Hands

 

I'm so jealous of that Marius! I have yet to capture one. Someday

 

Marius? ... ummm, did somebody mention Marius?!




... yah sorry, but I love my sweet Marius example

 

NICE

 

As a coincidence just bought a Macrianus today, and although a little rough it is rare and hard to get in good condition.
Bithynia, Nicaea Macrianus, AD 260-261, Æ 25 Rare.


Bithynia, Nicaea Macrianus, AD 260-261, Æ 25 mm. 7.2 gm. Obv: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev: The city walls of Nicaea from an aerial perspective. R.G. 867 and pl. 88, 12. Rare.
And I found a niffty video of the walls still in good preservation, apparently after Hadrian visited after earthquake started building walls finished mid 3rd century about 258 AD city got sacked by the Goths.

 

Here's mine:

Macrianus 260-261AD
Antoninianus (22mm, 4.14 g, 12h). Samosata mint. 1st emission. Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Apollo standing facing, head left, holding laurel branch and lyre; star in left field. RIC V 6

I'll probably replace it with a provincial "city walls of Nicea" if I find a good one. It's the most interesting type for Macrianus (instead of the debased and quite generic ants).

 

That's still a nice portrait, good luck with finding one like I just bought in better condition I think there is still only one on Vcoins and it is twice the price of mine, link..https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/c_...ct/macrianus_ae_24_nicaea/641202/Default.aspx as you go for better portraits you might struggle, I find better luck on reverses, but real hard to get both.

 

That's a beautiful bust of Marius, was that expensive?

 

Luckily, I found it in my pocket change

... yah, it was expensive (but I have zero-regrets, because it still makes me happy when I see it)