Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2, Lot: 617

Macrinus. AD 217-218. Orichalcum sestertius (22.70 gm). Rome, early AD 218. 

IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right.
VICTORIA PARTHICA-S C, Victory seated right on cuirass and 
arms, about to inscribe shield which she balances on her 
left knee. 
Bust variant of RIC 209, BMCRE 143 var and Cohen 133

Ex Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquired in 1968 through 
the Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoe Wilbour. 

Sold for $575 USD [ approx 437 EUR, 304.75 GBP 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
      and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).