Moesia inferior, Markianopolis, Macrinus & Diadumenianus Varbanov 929
Macrinus AD 217-218
AE 28, 12.49g
struck under the legate Furius Pontianus
obv. AVT K OPEL CEV MAKREIN[OC KM] OPEL ANTWNEINOC
confronted busts of Macrinus, laureate, r., and Diadumenianus, bare-headed, l.
rev. VP PONTIAN - OV MARKIANO / POLEIT / WN (WN ligate)
Triumphal arch with three doors, the door in the midth much higher, four figures 
on postaments above. The outer two are Victories holding wreath in upraised 
hand, the other two male figure, draped, the left holding up his r. hand, the 
right one holding spear in his l. hand.
E in l. field (for pentassarion)
Varbanov 929 (for rev.); Price/Trell p.51, fig. 85 var.; Moushmov 569
rare, F+/VF

Contributed by Hans-Joachim Hoeft, December, 2006.