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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: MACRINUS, AD 217-218. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. C. M. OPEL. SEV. MACRINVS AVG. His laureated and cuirassed bust to the right.
Reverse: PONTIF. MAX. TR. P. COS. P. P. Securitas standing left,legs crossed, holding sceptre and leaning on column.
Reference: RIC 24; Van Meter 23/4. Grade: AVF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Macrinus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Macrinus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.