I have a rough and scarred specimen with your
obv. die with a variant
river god reverse (see attached). I do not have your
Dionysos, only my variant of it.
Pick's no. 1755 is the listing for your coin (there is no other), but the
obverse there seems to be different: your
obv. die (see mine with the river
reverse) has the eta of SEVE at right of the
head preceding MAKRINOS. Likewise, my
obv. die, above, is not that of 1755, having all of SEVE at right preceding MAKRINOS (other specimens show it). Your
Dionysos die is surely
Pick 1755, because it is very uncommon to have that spaced O C in the
exergue all alone. That is decisive for the list number.
These coins would drive Constantinian collectors crazy; they interchanged
obverse dies quite commonly, yet did not use so many dies as the late coinage.
Pick 1756, an
Asklepios that I do not have, also has the
reverse exergue with O C, by the way, but the
obv. listed with it is a
Head.
The rarer die, yours, is not that which
Pick calls 'with a cloak'; mine is the one with a
paludamentum over armor.
My rough specimen, below, may interest you because I think that it has (
had) a
gorgoneion on the breastplate, which may be worn away on yours.
P.S. Yours is precisely
Varbanov I, no. 2717, which sold in
CNG 50, June 1999, apparently for $80, since that is the dollar value
Varbanov gives.
15 01 02 AE 26
Nicopolis ad Istrum Macrinus, laureate,
cuirassed bust.
AVT K M OPPEL(?)
SEV E MAKRINOS.
Rev. Unbearded
river god, reclining to l. on the ground, grasping tree with
his r. and resting
his l. forearm on flowing vase, with water conventionally represented. VP STA LONGINO[V] [
NIKOPOLI]
TON PROS IST.
Pick 1763, or very close (slight variations in legends).
The
reverse legend on this
river god is continuous, so cannot be the same die as the
reverse of
Pick 1763, and the
obverse legend of 1763 has
SEV HROC spelled out.
Pat L.