259, Lot: 371. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.24 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint, 7th officina. Struck AD 302. Laureate head right / Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; at feet to left, eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak; Z (or Ξ)//T·S·. RIC VI 3; Depeyrot 1/4; Cayón 4504a. VF, light tooling on portrait.