CNG 84, Lot: 1408. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. As Senior Augustus, AD 305-311/2. Æ Follis (27mm, 7.19 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 1st officina. Struck early-mid AD 308. D N DIOCLETIANO AETER AVG, laureate bust right, wearing trabea and holding olive branch and mappa / GENIO P OP ROM, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia; (lighted altar)/-//PLG. RIC VI 258; Lyon 466 (same rev. die as illustration). Good VF, brown patina, minor porosity. Extremely rare, only the Montbouy hoard coin cited by both RIC and Lyon.

From the White Mountain Collection.