Very Rare Depiction: Jupiter Seated Facing

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1835. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $10500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (5.48 g, 7h). Post-reform issue. Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck AD 294. Laureate head right / Jupiter seated facing, holding thunderbolt and scepter; to left, eagle standing left, head right; PT. RIC VI 17; Depeyrot 1B/3; Calicó 4455a. EF, lustrous. Very rare.

Ex Collection of a Perfectionist (Leu 93, 10 May 2005), lot 117.