Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 990. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phocaea. Commodus. As Caesar, 166-177 AD. Æ Medallion (40mm, 22.83 gm, 6h). Aulus, son of Marcus, strategus. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / EPI CTPA-THGOV AV-LOV TOV [M]AP-KOV, FWK across upper field, AEWN down right field, griffin advancing right. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC Ionia 143 var. (rev. legend); cf. Mionnet III, p. 182, 863. Near VF, red-brown patina. Extremely rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 648.