Macrinus Provincial

Have been looking to fill the Macrinus slot for a while. Pulled the trigger a few weeks ago on this provincial. Finally shot these reasonable pics the other day.

And share your Macrinus's's



Macrinus.
Macedonia-Amphipolis; Ae 22
Scarcer coin, 217-218 A.D. Sear 2910
AVT M OΠEΛ CEOV MAKΡINOC laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
AMFIPOLEITWN, Tyche seated left, holding patera.
BMC 130; Moushmov 6114; Varbanov 3286 (this coin?).

 

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Love the reverse @TJC. Excellent example with good detail!


MACRINUS
Pentassarion AE28
OBVERSE: AVT K OPEL CEVH MAKREINOC K M OPEL ANTWNEINOC - confronted busts
REVERSE: VP PONTIAN-OV MARKIANO/ POLIT, Coiled serpent with radiate head
Struck at Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, Magistrate Pontianus; 217 - 218 AD
12.6g, 28mm
Hr & J (2012) 6.24.22.6

 

Here's my Macrinus Provincial, AE 26 9.7 grams. I believe it to be Nikopolis ad Istrum:

 

Very good reverse, indeed


Macrinus, Bronze struck in Nicopolis
AVT KM .... H MAKRINOC, Laureate and cuirassed bust of Macrinus right
V M AGRIPPA NIKOPOLITWNPROC IC TR, Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia and rudder
14.26 gr
Ref : ANMG #1710

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Macrinus has some interesting and unusual Provincial types. Here's a somewhat more common type from Parium:

 

Mine was struck in Laodicea. BMC 97

 

@TJC .. May I know please why your "Tyche" looks like a Red Indian??

 

Nice @TJC ! Cool prov.

Here are a couple of mine of the Mac-Man:


RI Didumenian and Macrinus 217-218 CE AE28 Markianopolis mint Serapis


RI Macrinus 217-218 AE25 CE Facing Quadriga

 

I had been thinking we had not had a Macrinus thread for a while. Thanks for starting it.
Nicomedia honoring their second neocourous


Nicopolis with aegis on bust and Dionysos reverse


with Diadumenian from Marcianopolis with neatly piled snake coils


another Marcianopolis but the portraits switched sides - I always liked these with the three lines of legend under the heads. Athena reverse

 

Cool style on that Macrinus provincial!

I've only got one coin from this cat, but it's a sweet tet with a cool little Shamash dude on the reverse.



Syria, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Macrinus, 217-218 AD. AR Tetradrachm

O: laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: eagle standing facing, head left, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate and draped bust of Shamash left. Prieur 1015. 27 mm, 12.9 g

 

Here's a super-common one from Antioch:


Macrinus, Augustus AD 217-218
Roman provincial Æ 19 mm, 3.80 g, 12:00
Syria: Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch ad Orontem
Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ Ο C ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟC CЄ, laureate and cuirassed bust right
Rev: Large SC, Δ/Є above and beneath; all within laurel wreath interrupted by star above
Refs: SGI 2949; BMC 20. 198,385; SNG Cop. 233; McAlee 728.

 

Great addition. Yeah, thats a neat reverse.



Macrinus, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D., Antioch, Syria

Bronze provincial as, McAlee 736; Hunter III, 243 - 244; BMC Galatia p. 200, 403 ff. var (busts); SNG Cop 234 var (same), aF, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 2.175g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, die axis 180o, obverse AYT KAI M O CE MAKPINOC CE, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Macrinus, from the front; reverse KAI M O ∆IA ANTΩNEINOC, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Diadumenian, seen from the front, S - C flanking across field; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; very rare bust variant;

 

your reverse looks like one of mine afa the snake goes, but there's not enough on the obverse for me to really ID it..what do you think?

 

Here's mine.
Macrinus 217-218 CE, AE 23
Deultum mint, Thrace.
Obv: IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG
Rev: COL FL PAC DEVLTVM.
Varbanov 2121, Jurukova 61
23mm, 6.52 grams.

 

Nice OP coin! I don´t have any provincial coins of Macrinus (yet), so here is my Roman mint Sestertius:

IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG
Laureate and cuirassed bust right, featuring a medium beard, from the front
PONTIF MAX TR P COS PP S C
Felicitas standing facing, head left, long caduceus in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, drapery over left arm
Sestertius, Rome, 1.Oct.-31.Dec.217
20,5 gr, 31 mm
RIC IV 139, Cohen 66, Sear 7386, Clay ("The Roman Coinage of Macrinus and Diadumenian") Sestertius obverse die Nr.2 and reverse Nr.42 (this coin)
ex Prince Waldeck Collection, Auction Münzhandlung Basel 3, 1935 (Lot 730)

 

Cool coin, @TJC. Very bold with a nice mix of colours. One of my wins in the just concluded FSR auction is a Macrinus provincial which I have high hopes for. Sometimes hard to tell from Frank’s pictures.

 

My provincial Macrinus, same as OP coin, but worse preserved:

 

Here's my portrait coin of both short-lived emperors, both murdered by order of Elagabalus. Not a rare type (pentassarion of Marcianopolis with Tyche and her rudder and cornucopia), but I'm quite content with the condition.

 

And there is this nice little coin of young Diadumenian, issued in Nicopolis ad Istrum. The obverse says KM OPPE D I ANTONINOS, stressing his relationship with the Antonines, the reverse shows a 'cista mystica', a basket containing a snake that peeps out to the left, with NIKO PO LITWN or 'Of the citizens of Nicopolis'. The obverse is hard to photograph (for me), looks better in hand. 17 mm, 3.90 gr. Apparently a pretty rare coin.
The snake in its 'mystic basket' represents the god Dionysus.