CNG 88, Lot: 829. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Amasia. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ (35mm, 23.21 g, 5h). Dated CY 164 (AD 164/5). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Ares, holding spear and shield set on ground, standing right, vis-à-vis Aphrodite, in a posture of modesty, standing left; ЄT ΡΞΔ (date) in exergue. RPC Online -; Dalaison 67e (D28/R56; this coin); cf. RG 18; SNG von Aulock 22 var. (date). Near EF, brown patina, slight double strike on reverse.

From Group CEM. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 29 October 2000), lot 483.