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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4293844, member: 99456&quot;]more interesting rarities with mysteries of people, place and symbol.&nbsp; Your coin prompted me to look up <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/agon.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/agon.html" rel="nofollow">a page </a>from [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] on &quot;Agonistic urns&quot; - is this coin connected games held in Tyre (TYRIORVM)?</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering Macrinus only ruled for ~14 months (11 April 217 to June 218) , and Diadumedian was ~9-10 years old as co-ruler, there are a surprising number of coins from this father and son pair.&nbsp; This one I am still trying to sort out the reverse: Athena, Harmonia, Hera?[ATTACH=full]1093103[/ATTACH]</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis,<b> Macrinus with Diadumenian</b> as Caesar, AD 217-218, Æ Pentassarion, Pontianus, consular legate</p><p><b>Obv:</b> AVT K M OΠEΛ CEV MAKPEINOC K M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC, confronted heads of Macrinus right, laureate, and Diadumenian, left, bareheaded</p><p><b>Rev: </b>VΠ ΠONTIANOV MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Hera standing facing, head left, holding phiale and scepter; E (mark of value) to left</p><p><b>Ref: </b>double die match with one described as &quot;currently unique&quot; by CNG as of 12-08-2015.&nbsp; H&amp;J, Marcianopolis, 6.24.3.1-4 var. (E to right); AMNG I/I 722 var. (E to right); Varbanov 1185a var. (E to right) - so I guess this could meet McAlee criteria for Extremely Rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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