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A bronze provincial coin of the emperors Macrinus and Diadumenian with a reverse showing Nemesis-Dikaiosyne Coin Type: Bronze pentassarion of Macrinus, 217-218 CE
Mint and Date: Markianopolis in Moesia Inferior, 217-218 CE.
Size and Weight: 27mm, 13.62g
Obverse: (AYT K OΠEΛ C)EVH MAKPEINOC K M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC
Confronted heads of laureate Macrinus right and bare-headed Diadumenian left.
Reverse: VΠ AΓPIΠΠOY MAPKIANOΠOLEITΩN
Nemesis-Dikaiosyne standing left, scales held out in right hand in front, cornucopia in left arm behind, wheel at feet in front. E in lower left field.
Provenance: Silenos Coins (eBay), April 2006
Ref: Megaw —; Varbanov I (English) —; Hristova/Jekov (2011) 6.24.35.7; AMNG I —
BW Ref: 005 053 080
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