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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 140

Roman Empire, Macrinus (AD 217-218), AE Sestertius, IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, rev. PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P, Fides standing left, head right, holding two standards, SC in exergue, 23.78g (BMCRE 121, pl. 82, 9; Cohen 61; RIC 141), excellent strike, detailed portrait in high relief, accentuated by a rich, earthy patina, slight roughness to reverse with a split at the lower right of the flan, nevertheless very fine and rare, lamentably determined as 'tooled' by NGC, and therefore not graded [NGC Submision #8221848-006]

Provenance

The Major Hamish and Mrs Ann Orr-Ewing Collection of Roman Coins

Purchased from SCMB, May 1984, 9648A (with ticket)

Virgil M. Brand Part V, Sotheby's, 2 February 1984, lot 618

L. Vierordt, Part I, J. Schulman, 5 March 1923, lot 1957


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Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£1500