Æ34 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ Μ ΟΥΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΦΑΝΟΥϹ ΜΥΡΙΝΑΙΩΝ

Myrina, a coastal Aeolian city with a long history of autonomous coinage, issued bronzes under named magistrates well into the imperial period — the strategos named in this coin's legend, M. Oul. Aristophanes, is one of several such officials attested from the Antonine era whose tenures can be loosely bracketed by the emperors they chose to honor. The years 161–165 narrow the window to the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, declared co-emperors immediately upon Pius's death in March 161, an arrangement unprecedented in Roman succession that provincial mints across Asia Minor scrambled to acknowledge in bronze.

Myrina's civic bronzes from this period are relatively scarce in the archaeological record, the city having been overshadowed commercially by Pergamon and Smyrna throughout the imperial centuries.