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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Macrinus| > SH33741
Macrinus, 11 April 217 - 8 June 218 A.D.
|Macrinus|, |Macrinus,| |11| |April| |217| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.|, Annona was worshiped in Rome for providing the annual supply of grain. She was represented on an altar in the capital. The three principal granaries of Rome were Sicily, Egypt, and the African provinces. Annona civilis was the grain purchased each year by the state, imported, put into storage reserve, and then distributed for the subsistence of the people. Annona militaris was grain appropriated to the use of an army during a campaign.
SH33741. Silver denarius, RIC IV 26, RSC III 47, superb EF, Rome mint, weight 3.216g, maximum diameter 20.6mm, die axis 180o, 217 A.D.; obverse IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse P M TR P II COS P P (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power for two years, consul, father of the country), Annona standing left, stalks of grain in right hand over overflowing modius at feet on left, cornucopia in left; wonderful portrait, lustrous; SOLD










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