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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7651262, member: 75937&quot;]Great write-up, as always, [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER]! Love these &quot;on this day&quot; historical tidbits! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the short-bearded version of the fellow, on one of my favorite coins ever!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macrinus-nicopolis-apollo-sauroktonos-jpg.1142111/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Macrinus, AD 217-218.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ pentassarion, 12.64 g, 27 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>And the long-bearded version on an imperial denarius:</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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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