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Macrinus, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D.
No specimens in the huge Reka Devnia hoard. Curtis Clay showed in his article on Macrinus' coinage in Numismatische Zeitschrift 1979, the date is not Dec 217 as published in RIC. Macrinus became Consul for the first time on 1 Jan. 218, but since he had earlier been awarded consular ornaments, the mint assumed he would call himself COS II and in fact issued coins for him with this title in Jan. 218. Macrinus, however, as Dio Cassius tells us, reverted to earlier practice and decided to call himself Consul only in 218, not counting the award of ornaments as a first consulship. When the mint of Rome heard this news from the East, they reacted accordingly and changed Macrinus' titles from TR P II COS II to TRP II COS. So on coins of TR P II the title COS II was surprisingly EARLIER than the title COS!RS05693. Silver denarius, RIC IV 32, RSC III 82, aEF, Rome mint, weight 2.96g, maximum diameter 19.9mm, die axis 0o, Dec 217 A.D.; obverse IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right; reverse PONTIF MAX TR P II COS P P (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power for two years, consul, father of the country), Felicitas standing left holding long caduceus and cornucopia; rare; SOLD
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