Holy Macrin-oni-us! or Where does he get these wonderful holes???

I recently came across a fun lil holed denarius of an emperor that I didn't have in silver, made my usual po boy low ball offer and they excepted it!
Admittedly I do like holed coins adding to the stories my mind comes up with on the journey that coin had taken before arriving in my grubby grubbers.
A couple points of interest on this one;
The entry hole on the obv appears almost square. Making me think this was done in antiquity with an old hammered nail...though the reverse exit wound isn't as round.
The reveres is really what sold me on this one. Very worn and holed, it was hard to identify due to the uniqueness of Salus seat and the groovy snake coming out of the hole...I mean altar!
As everyone always says (double so in this type of worn condition) in hand it really does shine. It was just fun enough and surprisingly cool enough once received that I though this little scrub merited its own thread...Check it out!



MACRINUS
(217-218). Denarius. Rome 4.0 g 19 mm.
Obv: IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P.
Salus seated left with patera, feeding serpent rising from altar.
RIC 23.holed

My old Macaroni-us:



Macrinus
11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D., Parium, Mysia AE 23, SNG BnF 1503 var. A on rev.BMC Mysia -, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, SNG Çanakkale -, SNG Tüb -, SNG Hunt -, Weber -, aVF, well centered, some corrosion and light pitting, 6.787g, 22.6mm, 225o, Parium (Kemer, Canakkale, Turkey) mint, IMP C M OPE SEV MACRINVS, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse C G I H PA (Colonia Gemella Iulia Hadriana Pariana) curving above, final A in exergue, She-wolf standing right, head left, suckling the twin infants Romulus and Remus ; very rare

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Macrinus AE26 from Gabala, 217-218. AVT K M OΠ MAKΡEINOC / ΓABAΛEωN. BMC 20.

 

HOS


RImp Spain Lepida-Clesa Lepidus - mon C Balbus L Porcius Colonia Victrix Ivlia Lepida Victory - Bull holed RPI 262 plate 19

Lepidus was Consul with Caesar in 46 BCE
Lepidus was a Triumvir with Octavian and Marc Antony 43-36 BCE



Arcadius, AD 395-408
AR Siliqua, 16mm, 1.1g, 12h.
Obv.: DN ARCADI-VS PF AVG; Pearl diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: VIRTVS RO-MANORVM; Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear.
Mint MDPS, struck in Milan in 402,
Ref: RIC1227
From the Doug Smith Collection, #2829


MACARONI-US


RI Macrinus 217-218 AE25 CE Facing Quadriga

 

Sorry , no holed coins but here is a well placed centration dimple

Macrinus, Nikopolis ad Istrum

And the latest addition to my Macrinus family

Macrinus, Capitolias, Decapolis


Picture courtesy of www.romanumismatics.com

 

A recent purchace, Macrinus with a huge beard.
PHOENICIA, Berytus. Macrinus. 217-218 AD. Æ 25mm (9.56gm). Laureate head right / COL IVL AVG FEL, B-ER in exergue, Poseidon holding dolphin and trident, right foot on rock, standing left within hexastyle temple. BMC Phoenicia 167; SNG Copenhagen 113.

 

..this is, i believe, Marcrinus & Diadumenian provincial, but no hole...i do, however, have several holed Holy Roman emperors coins in the Habsburg line
;D

 

This is the only Macrinus coin I have left: A Tet from Cyrrhestica, Beroea, 14.80 gm, 26 mm. This coin wasn't a "junk box special" .

 

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


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
AE 26
OBVERSE: AVT K M OPEL CEVH MAKPINOC, laureate head right
REVERSE: UP AGRIPA (sic) NIKOPOLITWN PROS ISTRWN, Aequitas standing right, holding scales and cornucopiae
Struck at Nikopolis ad Istrum, 217 AD
10.2g, 26mm
Moushmov 1243

MACRINUS
AE 26
OBVERSE: ΑΥ Κ ΟΠΕΛ ΣΕΥ ΜΑΚΡΕΙΝΟΣ Κ Μ ΟΠΕΛ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΣ Κ, laureate head of Macrinus right facing bare headed head of Diadumenian left
REVERSE: ΥΠ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩ/Ν, Artemis, huntress, advancing r., reaching for an arrow in quiver at shoulder and in her l. hand holding a bow; below a hound. E to centre l
Struck at Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior, 217 - 218 AD
10.4g, 26mm
Moushmov 532

 

I never knew Macrinus was such a holy man....

Ok, that was a pretty pitiful attempt at a joke.

 

ehh, made me chuckle. But then again, I am highly susceptible to Dad jokes.

 

..ahaha...i was thinking "no badoom tish" on that one..><

 

When you tire of round holes, try some free form ones.

Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, Stratonicaea with countermark removed.


This Augustus was holed with an iron nail, part of which remains.


This Gordian retains some of its bronze nail.


Ditto for Trebonianus Gallus:


My most recently acquired hole is just a boring round hold filled with ordinary dirt. It is in an Alexandrian diobol of Antoninus Pius ex. X6 collection.

 

Very neat square/round hole example, @Ryro.

One hole...


Two holes...


A hole and a half...


And, yeah, this guy...

 

This is my latest Macrinus, a provincial (of course!):


Macrinus and Diadumenian, AD 217-218.
Roman provincial Æ Pentassarion, 12.06 g, 26.5 mm, 6 h.
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, Legate Pontius Furius Pontianus, June/Aug 217-Nov/Dec 217.
Obv: ΑΝΤ Κ ΟΠΕΛ CΕV ΜΑΚΡΕΙΝΟC Κ Μ ΟΠΕ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC, Confronted heads of Macrinus right, laureate, and Diadumenian left, bare.
Rev: VΠ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΝΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, Athena wearing helmet and aegis, standing left, holding owl and inverted spear; E in right field.
Refs: AMNG I 734v.; Hristova & Jekov 6.24.4.7; Varbanov 1170a; BMC 30v.; Moushmov 537; Wiczay 2148v.

 

Imagine if the Count counted holed coins instead of bats....

One hole, hahaha, two holes, hahaha, three holes.....