Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 753. Estimate $10000. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (3.85 g, 12h). Pre-Reform type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 285-286. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate and draped bust right / MARS V ICTOR, Mars advancing right, holding transverse spear in right hand and trophy over shoulder in left. RIC V 2; Lukanc p. 232, 2; Lyon 1; Depeyrot 1/1; Calicó 4543 (same dies as illustration). Superb EF.
Ex Triton VII (12 January 2004), lot 1040.