Name that Emperor

Could you please assist me to guess the name of this Emperor. It looks like Septimius S., but the legend doesn't show that. Thank you.

 

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..imma gonna guess Marcrinus Charles

 

Yes. Thank you. I also guessed so, after searching. The reverse is really fascinating with a big bull.

 

Macrinus, I think.

 

Here's the reverse. I'll receive the coin this afternoon. Bull heading right..

 

The obverse legend looks like:
IMP CAES MA CRIN----- to me.


But I can't find a reverse match. There is a Julia Domna with a reverse like yours:


Both above examples are from wildwinds.

 

It's from Tyre. See this one sold by CNG.

 

I feel really grateful to all of you. It seems a hefty coin. The bull is standing before a vexillum inscribed LEG III GAL . It's Legion III. Also notice the Murex shell in right field of reverse.

 

Nice coin.

 

Very neat murex shell. It took several thousand murex to dye a single small piece of cloth, so the imperial purple probably took many months and many hundreds of thousand poor snails to dye.

I don’t think I’ve seen a murex represented on a coin before. Very neat