234, Lot: 439. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. AR Argenteus (18mm, 3.17 g, 6h). Nicomedia(?) mint. Laureate head right / The four tetrarchs sacrificing before city enclosure with six turrets. RIC VI -; RSC -. VF, porous, flan crack.

This reverse type is not recorded from Nicomedia, only Trier, Rome and Ticinum. The style of the portrait though suggests that this may be a new type for Nicomedia. The portrait is in fairly high relief, much more so than normally seen from Rome or Ticinum. This cataloguer anticipated a campgate reverse before turning the coin over.