Æ42 - Macrinus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΑΥΡ ΔΙΑΔΟΧΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ, ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ

Macrinus ruled for just fourteen months before being defeated by the forces of Elagabalus at the Battle of Antioch in June 218 and subsequently executed. Provincial bronze of this size from his reign is genuinely scarce by any measure — the brevity of his rule left little time for the extended minting cycles that produced the large civic series under longer-reigning emperors. The strategós named in the obverse legend, M. Aurelius Diadochos Hippikos, is known from only a handful of Thyatiran issues, all dateable to this narrow window.