Macrinus, AV Aureus, 6.98 gr. Rome, 217-218 AD.

Obv: IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: SALVS PVBLICA, Salus seated left on high-backed
throne, holding patera in her left hand from which she feeds a serpent coiling up from an altar to left, her right
hand on the serpent’s head. 

RIC 83; Cohen 113, extremely rare.

With kind permission of Leu Numismatik AG, Switzerland,
May 2003. Sold for 33,000 Swiss Francs.