Here is another coin I like: Macrinus AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Syria. AVT K M O CEVH?OC MAK?EINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ?HMA?C E? V?ATOV, eagle standing facing on leg of an animal, head left or right, wreath in its beak. Antioch SGI 2948
Tets are really fun to have, @ancient times ... that is a very nice one of Macrinus. Here is mine ready to run everyone down with the facing Quadriga RI Macrinus 217-218 AE25 CE Facing Quadriga
Macrinus' provincial coins are a lot less difficult to obtain than his issues from Rome. My sestertius is, however, a bit strange as it is made out of an existing sestertius of Antoninus Pius.
Always had a large soft spot for Macrinus, nice addition to the collection @ancient times. I only have the 1 Tet unfortunately, here it is - Carrhae, Mesopotamia. Prieur 835
MACRINUS AR Denarius OBVERSE: IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate & cuirassed bust with short beard right REVERSE: PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P, Securitas standing left, holding scepter & leaning on column Struck at Rome, 217 AD 3.15, 20mm RIC 24, RSC 62, BMC 40 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
Nice one from Antioch, @ancient times . Here's my only Macrinus from that city: 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.
Bing, I really like your coin from Marcianopolis. How confident are you of the obverse inscription? I assume that the portraits depict Macrinus and Diadumenian, so I'd expect to see something like ΔIAΔOVMENIANOC at the end of the inscription rather than ANTΩNEINOC.
ANTΩNEINOC is commonly encountered as a name for Diadumenian on coins from this mint. It's AMNG I (Pick), p. 248, no. 782:
Nice coins everyone. I have but one Macrinus - a heads-you-win-heads-I-win with Diadumenian. This has the ANTΩNINOC moniker for Diadumenian like Bing's but with a ΔIA at the beginning: Macrinus and Diadumenian (217-218 A.D.) Æ 18 Syria, Seleucis & Pieria Antiochia ad Orontem [AVKMO] C MAKΡINOC C Laureate head of Macrinus r. /KAI M O ΔIA ANTΩNINOC Bare-headed bust, draped and cuirassed, of Diadumenian r., S C at sides. BMC 404-405. (3.26 grams / 18 mm)
