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