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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8191610, member: 110226&quot;]Wonderful write up, as usual.&nbsp; Thank you so much for your &quot;this day in history&quot; series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two tets of Macrinus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Empire, Macrinus,&nbsp; 217-218 AD</p><p>BI Tetradrachm of Beroea, Cyrrhestica.</p><p>AYT•K•M•OΠ•CЄ•MAKPIN[OC CЄ], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / ΔHMAPX•ЄΞ•YΠATOC•Δ•, eagle standing facing with wings spread and head to left with wreath in beak; B-Є flanking bird standing below.&nbsp; (Lot 546, Roma XXII)</p><p>Prieur 891. 15.00g, 26mm, 12h.</p><p>Extremely Fine; struck in high relief, light cabinet tone over lustrous metal. Rare.</p><p>From a private Dutch collection;</p><p>Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction X, 27 September 2015, lot 629;</p><p>Ex Belgian collection, Tradart S.A., Auction 5, 16 November 1995, lot 205.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434316[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Empire, 217-218 AD</p><p>BI Tetradrachm</p><p>Heliopolis</p><p>Macrinus</p><p>Obverse: AVT K M OΠ CЄ MAKPINOC CЄ. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Reverse: ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC Π Π. Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, star above lion advancing right.</p><p>Prieur 1202.</p><p>Crudely struck on a somewhat narrow, thick flan.&nbsp; Lightly porous surfaces.</p><p>Scarce</p><p><br /></p><p>14.08 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434332[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was sold to me as an Antioch tetradrachm, when in fact it is from Heliopolis.&nbsp; The MA Shops seller missed the weakly struck lion below the eagle and star.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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