Macrinus AD 227-218
AE 27 (Pentassarion), 13.58g
struck under the legate Furius Pontianus
obv. AV K OPPEL CEVH MAKREINOC / KM OPPEL AN - TWNINOC DI / ADOYMHN
confronted busts of Diadumenian, bare-headed, l., and Macrinus, laureate,
r.
rev. VP PONTIAN - OY MARKIAN - OPOLITWN
Female figure, with chignon, reclining on rock l., holding in
extended r. hand bunch of twigs with leafs, resting with l. arm on font,
rabbit r. on
ground
E in l. field
AMNG 755 (only 1 ex. in Bukarest)
Rare, VF/about EF

AMNG p. 194, note 3: "Friedlaender and von Sallet regard the figure as the
personification of the region, Ge or Tellus."
Note 4:  "The type is also reminiscent of some of the personifications of
provinces on the famous coins of Hadrian, for example HISPANIA."

Contributed by Hans-Joachim, 2006.