Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 671. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ 23mm (9.08 g, 11h). Dated CY 225 (AD 161/2). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Marcus Aurelius right / Laureate bust of Hercules-Melkart right, wearing lion’s skin around neck; date in legend. Spijkerman 39; SNG ANS 1310-1. Good VF, dark green patina, light earthen highlights.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.