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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8121070, member: 110226&quot;]A very nice RR group for 2021, Donna, wonderful examples!</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your third coin, Donna, I saw this coin, or medallion, in Roma&#039;s E-Sale 90, lot 765.&nbsp; It is a bronze AE 36 of Macrinus.&nbsp; It hammered at £1,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the description:</p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus Æ 36mm of Apamea, Bithynia. AD 217-218. IMP CAES M OPELL SEVER MACRINVS PI AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL IVL CONC APAM AVG D D, Aeneas advancing to right, head to left, carrying Anchises and leading Ascanius by the hand. von Aulock 6921 (same dies); RG 89; Sear 2917. 21.40g, 36mm, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p>Near Extremely Fine; patina stripped, struck on a medallic planchet. Extremely Rare; no other examples on CoinArchives.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a private UK collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>This remarkable and extremely rare bronze of Macrinus depicts a key moment in the Roman foundation mythology - the Trojan hero Aeneas, progenitor of what would eventually become the Roman people, flees the burning city of Troy, saving his father and son in the process, though tragically his wife Kreousa was slain in the escape and appears as a shade to Aeneas, informing him it was her fate to remain in Troy.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.romanumismatics.com/catalogue_images/auction/xlarge/16935.13.2_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the impressive and exhaustive analysis of your coin, I cannot have an opinion one way or the other.&nbsp; If your coin also included Ascanius on the reverse, with Aeneas and Anchises, there would be no doubt about the Troy connection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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