CNG 88, Lot: 839. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Trapezus. Orbiana. Augusta, AD 225-227. Æ (29mm, 12.37 g, 6h). Dated CY 163 (AD 226/7). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Mithras on horseback right; tree to left, lighted altar to right; ЄT PΞΓ (date) in exergue. RG 41; SNG von Aulock -. Good VF, dark green patina.

From Group CEM. Ex Sternberg XI (20 November 1981), lot 242.