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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3808384, member: 75937&quot;]Neat coins, [USER=107246]@ancient times[/USER] , and informative write-up! I love the history of the Severan period. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some Macrinus coins. You&#039;ll see his portrait comes in both short beard (such as yours) and long beard varieties. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macrinus-pontif-max-tr-p-cos-pp-fides-denarius-jpg.927180/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Macrinus, AD 217-218.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 2.94 g, 19.5 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 217.</p><p>Obv: IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P, Fides Militum standing facing, head right, right foot on helmet and holding a military standard in each hand. </p><p>Refs: RIC 22A; BMCRE 38; Cohen 60; RCV 7345; ERIC II 69.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1015912[/ATTACH] </p><p>Macrinus, AD 217-218.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ pentassarion, 12.60 g, 27.2 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis, Legate Marcus Claudius Agrippa, AD 218.</p><p>Obv: ΑV Κ ΟΠΠΕΛ CΕVΗ ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟC, laureate head, right.</p><p>Rev: VΠ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟC ΙCΤΡΩ, Nude Apollo with crossed legs standing right, his right arm drawn back, his left on a tree trunk, from which a lizard (?) leaps across to him.</p><p>Refs: AMNG I 1687; Moushmov 1210; Hristova and Jekov 8.23.7.2; Varbanov 3348; Mionnet Suppl. 2, p. 148, 541.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macrinus-antioch-jpg.737001/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Macrinus, Augustus AD 217-218. </p><p>Roman provincial Æ 19.4 mm, 3.78 g, 12:00.</p><p>Syria: Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch ad Orontem. </p><p>Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ Ο C ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟC CЄ, laureate and cuirassed bust right. </p><p>Rev: Large SC, Δ/Є above and beneath; all within laurel wreath interrupted by star above. </p><p>Refs: SGI 2949; BMC 20. 198,385; SNG Cop. 233; McAlee 728.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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